Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bothers the Argentines little that neighboring Chile claims part of the same slice (see map}, but they simmer at Great Britain's pretensions to sovereignty over every square mile of Argentina's frozen empire. Since Strongman Juan Peron came to power in 1945. Argentina and Great Britain have carried on a sort of supercooled war along the antarctic coast, each protesting whenever the other side acts as though it regards any particular expanse...
International Incident. To avoid serious clashes, Britain, Argentina and Chile signed an agreement in 1949 to refrain from sending warships south of the 60th parallel. Last month a Foreign Office spokesman in London issued a warning that Britain might be forced to disregard the three-nation pact if "incidents" kept occurring in Antarctica. The point was that the General San Martin's new base not only lay well within Britain's claimed slice of Antarctica but was near the announced starting point of a planned British-New Zealand attempt to make the first overland trek across the antarctic...
...ready for mailing, and shabby gray walls with travel posters covering cracks in the plaster all contribute to the cluttered but "worked-in" appearance of the five-room flat. Yet in the middle of this apparent disorder there are three carefully organized files on student movements from California to Chile. These files indicate the ambitious task of the Commission: to help bring order to the chaotic state of student organizations throughout the world...
...baby boom is leveling off, the world's population is still growing by 1.2% each year, according to a new World Health Organization study. Biggest net population increases are mostly in high-mortality, high-birth-rate countries, with some important exceptions: Ceylon, 28.5 per thousand inhabitants, Chile 22.9, Canada 19.2. Lowest increase countries: England and Wales 4.0, West Germany 4.5, Sweden 5.7. Biggest exception to the rule: The Netherlands, with a 14.1 increase and a low 7.7 death rate. (The U.S. had a 15.1 increase and 9.6 death rate...
...Germans are dickering to build a coastal freighter fleet, sugar and paper mills for Chile, whose Development Corp.'s executive vice president last week wound up a two-month business trip to West Germany...