Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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International Illness. British stock raisers suspect that the culprit virus came into Britain in meat from Argentina that was eaten as garbage by pigs on farms near that of Farmer Ellis. Because the incubation period is as long as ten days, a sick animal may infect thousands of others before showing signs of illness-thus the need for preventive slaughters...
Jose A. Mora will step down next May after 13 years of service as secretary general of the OAS. So far the Central American and Carribean nations have managed to thwart the will of the hemisphere's great powers--the U.S., Brazil and Argentina--on the choice of a successor. This is an unprecedented development in the history of the organization, and it may set an important trend for the future...
...speak of Borges as the greatest Argentine writer, or as one of the greatest Hispanic writers, is inadequate. While criticized for neglecting the national characteristics of Argentina, Borges addresses himself to universal concerns and achieves universal appeal. His South American background contributes to the amalgam of literatures and cultures of which Borges is the timeless, placeless hybrid...
Unlike neighboring Brazil and Argentina, tiny Uruguay is a fat and tolerant country where almost anyone can enjoy the good life. Its 2,700,000 people are among Latin America's best fed, best dressed, best paid, best educated and most pampered. Fully one in every four workers is employed by the government, which gives them 44 holidays a year and retirement at full pay as early as 55. Theaters in cosmopolitan Montevideo offer such lively fare as Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy and Strindberg's Miss Julia; in the city's quiet little tearooms...
...look at a map of South America, Bolivia, sharing borders with Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Peru, and Brazil, occupies a strategic position. In terms of Che's continental revolution, the continuing Bolivian rebellion aims at not only taking power in that country, but also slopping over into the surrounding countries...