Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan, 250 delegates from across the hemisphere examined complaints of violation of press freedom, nation by nation. The newsmen found faint stirrings of editorial liberty in the Dominican Republic following the assassination of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. They noted the arrest and brief jailing of TIME'S Chile Correspondent Mario Planet for two stories (TIME. June 23. Aug. 25) deemed disturbing to Chile's tranquillity. Cuba, Paraguay and Haiti were listed as "countries where there is no freedom of the press"-but the most alarming of these was clearly Cuba...
Original Members Later Adminissions Argentina Afghanistan Australia Albania Belgium Austria Bolivia Bulgaria Brazil Burma Byelorussian Soviet Cambodia Socialist Republic Cameroun Canada Central Aftrican Chile Republic China Ceylon Columbia Chad Costa Rica Congo (Brazzaville) Cuba Congo (Leopoldville) Czechoslovakia Cyprus Denmark Dahomey Dominican Republic Federation of Malaya Ecuador Finland Egypt Gabon El Salvador Ghana Ethiopia Guinea France Hungary Greece Iceland Guatemala Indonesia Haiti Ireland Honduras Israel India Italy Iran Ivory Coast Iraq Japan Lebanon Jordan Liberia Laos Luxembourg Libya Mexico Malagasy Republic Netherlands Mali New Zealand Morocco Nicaragua Nepal Norway Niger Panama Nigeria Paraguay Pakistan Peru Portugal Philippines Rumania Poland Senegal Saudi...
...promotes international monetary stability by lending money to meet short-term balance-of-payment problems. With the U.S. using its considerable influence to bolster the Alliance, Latin American countries have been able to withdraw an imposing $210,200,000 since March. The heaviest borrowers so far: Brazil, $60 million; Chile, $60 million; Colombia, $65 million...
...technical issue: how to review each nation's plans and allocate the Alliance for Progress funds. The original suggestion called for a board of seven "wise men" to sit in permanent session. The plan appealed to the small nations, but was violently opposed by Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Chile, who looked upon the board as an attempt to jeopardize their sovereign right to plan their own economic development. Caught in the middle, the U.S. delegation moved quickly to find a compromise, arranged a secret caucus with Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Mexico...
...join the alliance if the board was included in the plan. But after checking with Buenos Aires,*the Argentine delegates finally agreed to a new compromise: a nine-man board of advisers that could criticize but not act. As the U.S. delegation sat conspicuously in the background, Argentina, Brazil, Chile. Mexico and Peru got to work on the final draft of a proposal officially launching the Alliance for Progress...