Word: argentina
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...Byrd's expeditions in the 1930s, Antarctica soon aroused that old flag-planting urge among several nations. The 1957-58 International Geophysical Year brought a temporary thaw in Antarctic rivalries. Scientists from twelve na tions-the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, Belgium, Norway, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, Chile-worked together in a broad and coordinated program of Antarctic research. In May 1958, President Eisenhower invited them all to Washington to discuss a continuing joint policy for Antarctica. This, he argued, "could have the additional advantage of preventing unnecessary and undesirable political rivalries in that continent, the uneconomic...
Thunder on the Left. He flew back to Manhattan, raced to the green glass slab of the U.N. building for a 7 p.m. meeting with his staff. At 9, he was closeted with the four small-nation members (currently Ceylon, Tunisia, Argentina, Ecuador) of the eleven-man Security Council. Tunisia's dapper Mongi Slim assumed the role of floor leader in the fight for the resolution Hammarskjold wanted-one which would press the Belgians to withdraw "immediately" from Katanga but would promise Tshombe that their replacement by U.N. forces would not compromise Katanga's secession effort...
Rubottom, the man nominally responsible for the earlier policy as head of the State Department's Latin American desk, was forced to walk the plank. He now becomes U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, will be succeeded by Thomas C. Mann, 47, another career diplomat. The U.S. is resolved (and committed by treaty) not to intervene militarily in Cuba. Raul Castro says, "We're not going to touch" the $76 million U.S. naval base at Guantanamo...
...films of revolutionary progress, lend a hand in subversive plots, campaign for support among the backland peasants. In Venezuela last week, cops set out to arrest the leader of the July 26 movement after clashes of pro-and anti-Castro rioters and fatally shot him in a doorway. In Argentina, intelligence agents confronted the Cuban ambassador with documentary proof of his complicity in a plot by followers of ex-Dictator Juan Peron to overthrow President Arturo Frondizi; the agents also found his diplomatic pouch stuffed with Che's pamphlets on guerrilla warfare and instructions on how to bomb bridges...
...California-born U.S. citizen. Her husband was the son of an Argentine who took part in the gold rush-a tie that later pulled Che's grandparents back to Argentina. *The legendary Gaucho hero of a famed Argentine epic poem-roughly equivalent to Daniel Boone. -Arriving in Havana last week with his violently anti-U.S. wife Vilma, herself a veteran of fighting in the Sierra Maestra...