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...Chile's Carlos Davila, secretary-general of the Organization of American States (set up at the Bogota Conference in 1948), had even better figures to back him up. Davila told the conference that Latin America has paid back to the U.S. (on public and private loans) $1.5 billion more than the U.S. had put in; for U.S. investors, the profit rate comes to a thumping...
...louder, incessant rumble of revolution, it is unfortunate that the University offers no course in either area suitable for the non-specialist. General Education courses on the Far East, India, and the Middle East have shown that experts can successfully interpret emergent nations for the undergraduate. Soon, Guatemala and Chile, Tunisia and South Africa may drown out the clamor from these traditional noise-makers. To give students a basic knowledge of the areas and to stimulate interest in graduate research, the University should add to the upper level Social Sciences a course dealing with Africa and one with Central...
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...
Besides Great Britain, Argentina and Chile, four other nations-Australia, New Zealand, Norway and France-claim slices of the polar pie. The U.S. puts forth no claims of its own, and does not officially recognize those of other nations. Before World War II, the U.S. held to the doctrine -laid down in 1924 by Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes-that no nation could rightly claim sovereignty over an area that it could not effectively occupy...
...every success, there are many failures and unfulfilled needs. Alberto Marulanda, owner of the biggest ranch in Colombia, needed a million pesos to put cattle on his 70,000 acres, but could not raise the money since U.S. investors argued that cattle are the first victims of civil disturbances. Chile, whose forests and minerals beckon paper and chemical industries, has liberal tax-exemption provisions for foreign capital. But they are meaningless, since employers must add 25% to their government-cushioned wage bills in the form of social-security payments. Brazil is so queasy about foreign exploitation that citizens married...