Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still more in their hand-pumping greetings along the crowded, glass-walled corridors 500 delegates from 60 nations talked up "the Geneva spirit" that appeared to be abating tensions. In token of the new cordiality, the Assembly on the first ballot chose its president by unanimous vote. He is Chile's portly, polished Jose Maza, 66, a U.N. parliamentarian of ten years' standing. With Molotov protesting only mildly for the record, the Assembly voted for the sixth year (42-to-12) against considering Red China for membership. But after Molotov's standpat opening speech, only...
...Peruvians scoffed at last week's Ecuadorian complaint. Headlined a Lima newspaper: ECUADORIAN CRYBABIES AT IT AGAIN. But the O.A.S. shifted its well-oiled peace-keeping machinery into high gear, called for a meeting of the U.S., Argentina, Brazil and Chile, the four "guarantors" of the 1942 Ecuador-Peru border agreement. Representatives of the four countries got together in Rio that same evening, set up two inspection teams made up of their military attaches in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian capitals. By the following afternoon, the inspectors were scanning the border regions from the air. They reported no evidence...
...result, the U.S. has been losing its foreign sources of raw copper. Last month, as West European buyers offered prices 5? to io/ higher than the U.S., Chile, normally the U.S.'s biggest single foreign source, began sending most of its production to Europe, instead...
...week, with Remorino disabled by a liver ailment, Perón at last decided to act. Into the ministerial chair slipped Lawyer Ildefonso Félix Cavagna Martínez, 50, lately a special ambassador charged with working out Perón's proposed economic hookups with neighboring Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia...
...another spin to the gay whirl, Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro flew 665 miles northwest to Lima one day last week. It was a historic occasion. Ever since Chile defeated them in the War of the Pacific (1879-83), Peru and Bolivia have sullenly blamed each other for their joint misfortune. But from the moment that Peruvian President Manuel Odría gave him a big abrazo at the airport, Paz Estenssoro was treated like a long-lost brother. Bands played, a Cadillac convertible drove the Presidents through cheering throngs. Paz responded: "Peru and Bolivia have an ancestral...