Word: ecuador
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...Ecuador...
...only too eager to join hands and sign, too. Ironically, they are all non-nuclear powers, and except for a handful, they will never have a nucle ar capability. At week's end the following had agreed to sign: Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, East Germany, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Finland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Laos, Li beria, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Soma lia, the U.A.R. and Uruguay. In addition, about 50 countries have shown an official "interest" in signing, and presumably will do so soon...
...classic Latin American scene. At 2 p.m. one day last week, eight tanks rumbled up to the presidential palace in Ecuador's Andean capital of Quito. Radio bulletins soon blared the news: Carlos Julio Arosemena, 44, the country's 46th President in 130 years, had gone the way of many of his predecessors-deposed by military coup. A crowd of demonstrators gathered at the palace to protest to the new rulers; and tanks opened fire. Three persons were killed, 17 wounded. In the palace, Arosemena refused to resign at first, then bowed to superior firepower and was bundled...
When sober, Arosemena pushed through a much-needed austerity program, reversed the drain on foreign exchange, and managed to increase Ecuador's low standard of living a bit. Under pressure from the military, he broke diplomatic relations with Castro's Cuba. His regime seemed to satisfy most people-except for the drinking. But as his drinking got worse, the Conservative opposition in Congress twice sought to have him impeached. Lacking the votes, it asked the military leaders to intervene. At first the army refused. Arosemena denounced his critics as "Creole Calvinists." He was a human being, he said...
...Quito honoring Admiral Wilfred J. McNeil, president of Grace Line, Arosemena was full of liquid passion. Evidently upset over the squabble with U.S. tuna fishermen, he told off U.S. Ambassador Maurice Bernbaum in loud, undiplomatic language. "The Government of the United States," declared Arosemena, "exploits Latin America and exploits Ecuador." He then, said the dinner guests, committed a series of "even more undecorous acts," and vomited in front of the gathering. At an all-night meeting, officers of all three services agreed that Arosemena...