Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate voted final approval, 40 to 8, of the Bilateral Military Assistance pact. Brazil agreed to supply strategic materials to the U.S.; in return, the U.S. will provide Brazil with technical military assistance and training equipment. The pact, similar to others signed with Chile, Cuba, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic, had long been blocked and bitterly attacked by Communists and extreme nationalists as a slur on Brazil's "sovereignty." To preside over the joint Brazilian-U.S. military commission, President Vargas appointed Brigadier Eduardo Gomes, his 1950 election opponent...
Among world oilmen, Norwegian-born Torkild ("Cap") Rieber, a hardfisted, hard-swearing ex-sailor, is an operator whose shrewd deals and big projects have made him something of a legend in the industry. It was Rieber who landed the famous Barco concession in Colombia for the Texas Co.. built a mile-high pipeline across the Andes, wangled a half-interest for Texaco in the rich Bahrein fields on the Persian Gulf. After he resigned as Texaco chairman in 1940. he carved a new career for himself as boss of Barber Oil Corp...
...your March 23 issue, I read that those who voted for General Carlos P. Romulo as a candidate for Secretary General of the United Nations were: the U.S., China, Colombia, Greece and Pakistan. There is an error in this listing. Lebanon voted for General Romulo. I checked the secret ballot and dropped it in the ballot box with my own hand. Consequently, at least one of those listed by you did not vote...
...line of resistance), a few miles west of Chorwon on the western front. U.S. troops captured Old Baldy last May. Since then it has changed hands more than once, but-up to last week-it was held by units of the U.S. 7th Division, with South Americans of the Colombia battalion attached. Baldy had some value as an observation point, but it was vulnerable to Communist attack on three sides. Mostly it had prestige value: it was what some officers cynically call a "political hill...
...nominated the Philippines' Carlos Romulo, who won only five votes (U.S., China, Colombia, Greece, Pakistan), two less than needed, and was counted out. Russia named Polish Foreign Minister Stanislaw Skrzeszewski, who got only one vote (Russia). Denmark proposed Canada's Lester Pearson, and many believed that he would not be actively opposed by Russia. Pearson overcame the first obstacle with nine votes (U.S., Britain, France, China, Chile, Denmark, Pakistan, Colombia, Greece), but fell before the second, a Soviet veto (its 56th in the Security Council). The ballots, which are supposed to be secret but aren't, were...