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...outskirts of London of Anne's cousin Princess Alexandra and her husband Angus Ogilvy. The next day they flew to Barbados for an 18-day honeymoon cruise on the royal yacht Britannia through the Caribbean to the Galapagos Islands, to be followed by an official tour of Ecuador, Colombia, Jamaica and the islands of Montserrat and Antigua. Home, after that, will be an eleven-room house at Sandhurst Military Academy, where Mark will be an instructor. Anne has professed to be able to cook "a quick meal." Adds Mark: "I can recommend the scrambled eggs...
...leaders spending huge sums on weapons and then seeking aid to feed their peoples. In 1968 Congress voted against further sales unless the President decided that they were important to the security of the United States. In announcing Nixon's waiver to permit sales to Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela, the Administration put no emphasis on "security" interests. Rogers said that the policy of "paternalism" had not worked...
...surplus remodeled F-5Es. Admittedly they are cheaper than the French Mirage [$1.6 million each, compared with $2.2 million for the Mirage], but this is just a hooker to sell expensive spare parts later." In fact, France has already sold more than 500 Mirages to Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela...
LEANDRO ACONCHA: One day at his home in Fuengirola, Spain, when he was three, Leandro heard a tune on TV and asked his father to teach it to him. Papa Roberto, an ex-concert pianist from Colombia who had moved to Spain to go into real estate, led the boy to the piano, picked out the melody, and stood amazed as Leandro repeated it perfectly...
Before leaving Washington two weeks ago, he grandly described his swing through Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Jamaica as "the most important trip to Latin America by a Secretary of State in the past 40 years." In fact, it may end up as a diplomatic fiasco. If so, Washington will have to bear a large share of the blame...