Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cotton, when drought struck six of its 24 departments early last year; it allocated another $10 million in relief and public-works projects to employ suffering campesinos. Ecuador saw parts of Manabi and Loja provinces charred, with an estimated $50 million in losses, mainly in coffee and rice. In Argentina's Patagonia region, woolmen estimate that the drought has taken the lives of at least 200,000 sheep. But Chile's plight is by far the worst of the nations in the area. If the drought there does not end soon, in fact, the Chilean weather bureau warns...
...army-backed regime has brought peace to the tin mines on whose exports the country's economic health depends. Yet his somewhat heavy-handed rule has infuriated and alienated Bolivia's students, who occasionally take to the streets in rock-tossing protests against his regime. In Argentina, General Ongania has escaped severe criticism because his military regime's Draconian measures have managed to arrest the country's economic decline, bringing a collective sigh of relief from Argentinians. But pressures may well mount if he persists in his intention to keep the country under military rule...
...military regimes of one form or another. That ratio was created by the imposition two weeks ago of overt military rule in Brazil, where half the continent's 180 million people live. Yet even before that event, armed forces were in command in four other im portant countries-Argentina, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay-which stretch from the peaks of the Andes to the desolate plains of Tierra del Fuego...
Presumed Dead. Charles G. Reid, 42, captain of Moore-McCormack Lines' cruise ship S.S. Argentina, who joined the company in 1949 as a junior officer, later skippered freighters before taking command of passenger vessels three years ago; after vanishing mysteriously from his ship (Moore-McCormack says he apparently committed suicide by jumping out his cabin window) en route from Jamaica to Bermuda...
...Argentina 131,778* Total...