Word: argentina
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...ornate office Argentine Foreign Minister Diogenes Taboada, a stern old diplomat of the striped-pants school, ran his eye over a copy of a television speech by Castro's Foreign Minister Raul Roa, and stiffened with horror. Argentina's President Frondizi, as Roa expressed it, was not only "a viscous concretion of all human excrescences"; he was also "the villain of a badly composed tango...
...usual, Moscow's motives were hard to fathom. Noting that the Soviets had previously tried in vain to get Argentina...
...rebutted that "never in modern history has there been a dictator who did not claim to represent the will of the people." committees of foreign ministers filled offstage workrooms of the rococo National Theater to write the final resolution. The initial division was between two groups. One group-including Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Uruguay, Paraguay, El Salvador and Colombia-was willing to go along with the U.S. in a specific denunciation of Russian and Communist Chinese intervention and of Cuba for inviting it. Other foreign ministers-from Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Honduras and Ecuador-were moved by their...
...Innocence (Argentine Sono Film; Kingsley) is a shadowed, subtle, intense study of purity, sin and degeneracy. A shy, beautiful girl (Elsa Daniel) comes to adolescence in the Argentina of the late '20s. A fanatically puritanical mother has kept Ana from worldly knowledge in the most rigid Latin-American tradition. She is not allowed to see even her own nakedness-she wears a smock when she bathes. Her nanny describes flatly the penalty for unmentioned sins: "Your body will burn for evermore...
...even Maximum Leader Castro cannot afford to ignore the church. In the past five years, it has been a rallying point for enemies of dictators who fell in Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia. Last week, after pro-Communist gangs attacked crowds leaving Havana Cathedral, Archbishop Diaz threatened that the Cuban Catholic Church might declare itself officially "in silence"-as it is behind the Iron Curtain. As the Castro-Catholic battle got hotter, church attendance showed a sharp and significant upturn...