Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country's three big tin companies. Twenty thousand black-shawled women and tin-helmeted men yelled vivas. A leather-jacketed Indian stepped to the President's side and sounded the ancient Inca battle call on a curved bull horn. That night bonfires burned all over the Bolivian Andes, and the cobbled streets of La Paz echoed with the din of jubilant partisans firing off the rifles and pistols they had seized from government arsenals and routed army units last April during the uprising of Paz Estenssoro's totalitarian Movement of National Revolution...
Time to Restrain. In the hope of striking such a bargain, President Paz Estenssoro has offered engineers and other foreign employees of the three companies security of tenure, salary and other contract benefits if they will keep on working for the government's newly constituted Bolivian Mining Corp. But coming to terms with the tin barons and their experts may not be the President's toughest problem. Speaking to the miners at Catavi last week, Labor Boss Juan Lechin, Bolivia's left-wing Minister of Mines, said: "Nationalization must be carried out without payment to the thieving...
...Helpful Bolivian. A share of the popular acclaim went to U.N. Commissioner Eduardo Anze Matienzo. the genial Bolivian who prepared the way for federation. Anze Matienzo arrived in Asmara 20 months ago in the wake of bloody riots between Eritrea's Moslems and its Christian Copts. He went into every corner of the land seeking to allay religious distrust. His success was shown by the peaceful nature of Eritrea's first national elections, held earlier this year, which sent 34 Copts and 34 Moslems to an assembly that ratified a constitution acceptable to both sects...
Described, not unkindly, as "a Bolivian concept of a Swiss federation adapted to an African absolute monarchy," the partnership of Ethiopia and Eritrea should have practical advantages. Landlocked Ethiopia has the resources of soil and climate to become East Africa's breadbasket. Eritrea has better-trained labor and coastal ports on the Red Sea. The federation's success, said departing Commissioner Anze Matienzo pointedly, depends on Ethiopia's "respect for Eritrea's constitutional progress and autonomy...
...mile railroad and a dock, arranged to seek a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, and hoped to produce $50 million worth of manganese a year. To date, Brazil's nationalists have refused to give the go-ahead signal. At the Urucum manganese mine near Corumbá, on the Bolivian border (which could produce an estimated 500,000 tons annually, earn $20 million in foreign exchange for Brazil), a U.S. Steel Brazilian subsidiary has been waiting four years while patriots argue whether it is too risky to have foreigners that close to the border zone...