Word: ecuador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ecuador-Peru quarrel over boundaries has been bubbling, and occasionally boiling up into small-scale warfare, ever since Ecuador became a nation in 1830. In 1942, after the last serious gunfighting between the two countries, a six-nation committee in Rio awarded Peru some three-fourths of the null jungle territory under dispute. The Ecuadorians have been fretting about the decision ever since, and the mere approach of a Peruvian patrol to the poorly demarcated border is enough to set off invasion alarms. During the past year, nerves on both sides have tautened further as the two countries added...
...Peruvians scoffed at last week's Ecuadorian complaint. Headlined a Lima newspaper: ECUADORIAN CRYBABIES AT IT AGAIN. But the O.A.S. shifted its well-oiled peace-keeping machinery into high gear, called for a meeting of the U.S., Argentina, Brazil and Chile, the four "guarantors" of the 1942 Ecuador-Peru border agreement. Representatives of the four countries got together in Rio that same evening, set up two inspection teams made up of their military attaches in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian capitals. By the following afternoon, the inspectors were scanning the border regions from the air. They reported no evidence...
...reason why neighbors Peru and Ecuador are more than ordinarily touchy about their long-standing border dispute (see above) is that they are currently competing with each other in an expensive jet air-power race. Last year the Peruvians asked the U.S. to sell them twelve F-86 Sabre-jet fighters. During the past ten months, Ecuador got twelve Meteor fighters and six Canberra twin-jet medium bombers from Britain. Last week came the Peruvian retort: the government announced that it had signed up for 20 of Britain's late-model Hawker Hunters...
Neither Peru (pop. 9,300,000) nor Ecuador (pop. 3,400,000) can really afford to spend millions of dollars for warplanes, but a combination of alarm and national pride holds down public complaints in the two countries...
...Ecuador owns two British jet trainers in addition to its twelve Meteors and six Canberras...