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...four months ago, protesting Castro's stepped-up aggression. Last week the Organization of American States accused Castro of sending four armed Cuban regulars to the coast of Venezuela last May, the first overt and deliberate military invasion of one Latin American country by another since the Gran Chaco border war between Bolivia and Paraguay more than 30 years...
...answer seems to be: until he loses a crucial one. In off-year elections for the lower house in 1965, the Peronistas gained 44 seats again, but the People's Radicals still held 70, and thus maintain a tenuous control of the legislature. Two other minor provinces, Chaco and Neuquén, have also elected Peronista governments, but no major provinces will go up for grabs until March 1967. Since the military still believes in constitutional government, no golpe seems unavoidable before then...
...quarterfinals, Chace had the misfortune to be matched against Jim Nance, the Syracuse All-America fullback who has taken the heavyweight championship in the Easterns for the last two years. Nance, who pinned his first opponent in 50 seconds, took 4:46 to dispose of Chaco...
Dave Morash, undefeated this year for the Lions, then downed Harvard Captain Ben Brooks 9-6 at 191 pounds in a see-saw match marked by a number of rapidfire reverses. Heavyweight Tack Chaco salvaged a little of Harvard's pride by stopping Chattman of Columbia...
...left the country little strength for nation building. In 1864 Paraguay blustered into the suicidal, six-year War of the Triple Alliance against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay; out of a population of 525,000, only 220,000 survived, and only 28,000 of these were men. Again in the Chaco War of the 1930s, Paraguay took on Bolivia and won 20,000 sq. mi. of wilderness borderland-at a cost of one Paraguayan life for each square mile. Thus the prize won in 1954 by Stroessner, a veteran of the Chaco War, was a sleepy backwater, 600 miles by river...