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The miners of Kalgoorlie's Golden Mile knew Herbert Hoover before the turn of the century as a young gold-mining engineer and balladeer in love with a local barmaid. Today Kalgoorlie is a nickel-mining center of 26,000, with 37 saloons, tolerated brothels and streets still wide...
Mutual irritation aside, there are some genuine conflicts between the U.S. and its European allies, foremost among them the instability of the dollar (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) and the presence of 313,000 U.S. troops on the Continent. International Affairs Expert Michel Tatu of Le Monde recently wrote that U.S. insistence...
Nixon was a continent away at San Clemente, going about the business of the presidency. He reached a historic compromise with Congress on halting the Cambodia bombing by Aug. 15 (see page 14). He prepared to celebrate the nation's 197th Independence Day, a Fourth of July dimmed by deeply...
The three southernmost nations of Latin America were near political paralysis last week. Chile, already polarized by a conflict between left and right, was jarred by an abortive army coup. Widespread terrorism persisted in Argentina, following the return to Buenos Aires of ex-Dictator Juan Perón. In Uruguay...
Thus, without a shot being fired, a tiny nation that had long prided itself as being the showplace of democracy in South America joined the growing list of military-dominated dictatorships on the continent. Uruguayans bitterly called the takeover "the last payment in our installment-plan coup." In fact, it...