Word: bolivian
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Visits in Buenos Aires. Since the Army's entire stock of such bombs had been locked in a La Paz arsenal, the government sniffed outside interference. Said President Urriolagoitia darkly: "This rebellion has international roots." In Buenos Aires, the Bolivian ambassador called on Juan Perón's new Foreign Minister, young Hipolito Jesus Paz, four times within twelve hours. How was it, he demanded, that the M.N.R.'s Carmelo Cuellar, thought to be safely out of mischief in Argentina, had turned up at the head of a rebel column...
...workers of the Canadian Baptist Mission have spread good works across the windswept barrens of the Bolivian altiplano. The mission has built schools and hospitals for the poverty-haunted tin miners to whom it ministers, given out free medicines, taught converts to speak
...holding a Bible class. When 300 drunken Indians began to stone the house, Dabbs and 40 terrified converts tried to escape in a truck. The Indians cut across a dry river bed, intercepted the truck, laid about with sticks and stones. When they had finished, Norman Dabbs and seven Bolivian Baptists lay dead...
...camp at the Siglo Veinte (20th Century) tin mine, 12,000 feet high in the Bolivian Andes, Mrs. Elena O'Connor was preparing lunch. Her husband Tom, a Pasadena, Calif, engineer employed at the Patiño-owned mine, was visiting another U.S. engineer next door. Through her window Mrs. O'Connor saw 15 Indian miners rush to the neighbor's house and kick in the door. Minutes later the Indians came out dragging the two Americans, whose faces were blotched with blood...
...Look at the Chart. Bolivians, Brazilians and Argentines like to spread out big survey charts of the potentially great, 150-mile-wide petroleum zone stretching parallel to the Andes right across the Oriente. "Today we have tin, tomorrow oil," gloated a Bolivian engineer. "There is no better oil anywhere in the world," said a Brazilian, with an unmistakably proprietary air. The Argentines, who were already selling cast-iron plumbing in Santa Cruz, expected to have their...