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...that "never in modern history has there been a dictator who did not claim to represent the will of the people." committees of foreign ministers filled offstage workrooms of the rococo National Theater to write the final resolution. The initial division was between two groups. One group-including Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Uruguay, Paraguay, El Salvador and Colombia-was willing to go along with the U.S. in a specific denunciation of Russian and Communist Chinese intervention and of Cuba for inviting it. Other foreign ministers-from Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Honduras and Ecuador-were moved by their...
...expeditions in the 1930s, Antarctica soon aroused that old flag-planting urge among several nations. The 1957-58 International Geophysical Year brought a temporary thaw in Antarctic rivalries. Scientists from twelve na tions-the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, Belgium, Norway, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, Chile-worked together in a broad and coordinated program of Antarctic research. In May 1958, President Eisenhower invited them all to Washington to discuss a continuing joint policy for Antarctica. This, he argued, "could have the additional advantage of preventing unnecessary and undesirable political rivalries in that continent, the uneconomic expenditure of funds...
...gone up almost unbelievably . . . they now have more than twice our rate. Drunkenness has gone up. Lack of ambition is discernible on all sides." The country, though Ike did not mention it, was Sweden. Actually, France has the highest rate of alcoholism in the world; the U.S. is second; Chile, third; Sweden, fourth. Japan and Austria have the highest suicide rate of all nations (23.9 per 100,000 pop.); Sweden is sixth on the list (19.9), the U.S. fourteenth (9.8). *By way of explanation, Jack Kennedy repeated his now-notable U-2 "apologize" statement for the May 23 Congressional Record...
...toughs, played golf, took odd jobs in Córdoba's vineyards. His father taught him to shoot-and started him rambling through some of the 3,000 books, mostly leftist sociology and history, that crammed the family bookshelves. The boy was entranced with the works of Chile's Communist Poet Pablo Neruda, memorized many of his poems...
...broke off his studies and set off with a friend on a motorcycle tour of South America. They crossed the Andes, abandoned their motorcycle when it gave out in Chile, then hitchhiked to Peru and Ecuador, winding up with jobs as male nurses in a leper colony near the source of the Amazon. They floated downriver into Colombia, crossed into Venezuela, and snagged a lift to Miami aboard a plane carrying race horses from Buenos Aires. Che was turned back by U.S. immigration authorities. He headed home to finish the seven-year course of studies in three years. When...