Word: asuncion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paraguay, student unrest boiled up in the wake of Rockefeller's visit, when police used tear gas and truncheons to break up a demonstration at an engineering school. Rallying against police brutality, students at one point last week took over a church in Asuncion, and most of the country's high school and college students trooped out on strike...
...served "interesting but not very good." Er, and politics? "I am a great admirer of Fidel Castro," said Greene, after which Miss Ocampo allowed as how she was "an admirer of Gandhi and Nehru but had not been converted." Last seen, Greene was boarding a riverboat bound for Asuncion, Paraguay, for final research on his book, Travels with My Aunt...
...Colombia have not gone beyond the planning stage, Venezuela has already opened 275 miles of its portion of the Marginal Highway, and has another 85 miles under way. Paraguay has built a 442-mile link across the Gran Chaco, cutting transportation time from the rich central farming areas to Asuncion from six or eight days to ten hours. Bolivia's President Rene Barrientos has built about one-third of a planned 1,100-mile stretch, renaming one of the small towns along it after Belaunde...
...only last April that Latin American heads of state met in the gambling casino at Punta del Este, Uruguay, and agreed to get a Common Market in operation by 1970. By last week, that heady promise seemed to be considerably behind schedule. Assembled at Asuncion, Paraguay, to work out a preliminary plan for cooperation, the foreign ministers of the Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA) agreed on little but the magnitude of their differences...
...pronto. Four of them did and ran smack into yet another fiasco at New York's Kennedy Airport, where they were promptly bucked back to Madrid because they lacked proper visas. At week's end, they tried a second time, with visas, and made it through to Asuncion, the capital of friendly Paraguay. Diehard Peronistas in neighboring Argentina claimed that it was an advance party and that Peron might still work his way to Asuncion...