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...first, Argentina protested just as a matter of form. TIME Correspondent Piero Saporiti had reported that Nazi Adolf Eichmann had been run down by Israeli agents in Buenos Aires and whisked out of the country in an Israeli plane. Off went Argentina's note to Israel, asking for information and tacitly inviting an equally pro forma denial that the Israeli government knew anything about it. But last week Israel's Premier Ben-Gurion replied with one of the most undiplomatic notes in diplomatic history-and the Argentines wished they had not asked...
Selinger's satisfaction was not universally shared. Argentina-from whose soil Eichmann had been kidnaped by Israeli agents last month-seemed content to accept at face value Israel's pro forma denial that the kidnaping had ever happened. But in New York, Nahum Goldmann, prestigious president of the World Zionist Organization, was openly troubled by Israel's unilateral action and urged that Eichmann should stand trial for mass murder before an international court rather than an Israeli...
...chance of a warm official welcome elsewhere is slight. All the major Latin American Presidents-Argentina's Frondizi, Mexico's López Mateos, Brazil's Kubitschek, Venezuela's Betancourt, Chile's Alessandri, Colombia's Lleras Camargo-are authentic, elected democrats, friendly to the U.S. and fearful of letting Khrushchev get a foothold in the Western Hemisphere. But though Latin America is gifted with many mature and responsible top officials, it also has masses of poor and illiterate people whose grievances can be exploited. From his platform in Cuba, Khrushchev undoubtedly hopes to talk...
...Buenos Aires, his first stop, where he was ostensibly an honored guest at Argentina's 150th birthday celebration. Dorticós slipped away to confer secretly with chiefs of the anti-government Peronista Metal Workers Union...
...Graves. As the Israelis prepared a "show" trial to take place later this year, diplomats and editorialists around the world asked about the legality of kidnaping a man from one country to stand trial in a second for crimes committed in a third. There is also the embarrassment of Argentina, whose sovereignty was infringed and whose laws against abduction were flouted...