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...foreign aid, occasionally high-principled and altruistic, most of the time is used as a way of exerting diplomatic leverage. As such, its rationale can be precarious. Two recent examples: > After the assassination last month of a Chilean opposition leader, former Vice President Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, the killers were identified as members of the extreme leftist Organized Vanguard of the People. But Communist and Socialist politicians, as well as several pro-government newspapers, accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency of being behind the murder. Defense Minister Alejandro Rios Valdivia did not specifically blame the CIA, but he told...
INCONSOLABLE MEMORIES by Edmundo Desnoes. 155 pages. New American Library...
...EDMUNDO LASSALLE...
...growing press empire and in the men he impulsively picked to manage it. In a fit of rage in the early 1930s, Chatô fired one of his Sao Paulo managers and replaced him with the first person his eye lit on. The chosen one: Office Boy Edmundo Monteiro, who eventually worked his way to control of all of Chatô's companies in Sāo Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina states. A few years later in Rio, Chatô went rowing with a student named Joāo Calmon, who happened to be standing...
...front men of his anti-church campaign: Minister of Interior Angel Gabriel Borlenghi (who departed in haste to Uruguay) and Minister of Education Armando Méndez San Martin. To replace them he swore in ("by God, the Fatherland and the Holy Gospels") a pair of party hacks: Oscar Edmundo Albrieu, 40, as Interior Minister, and Francisco Marcos Anglada, 38, as Education Minister. Both were moderate enough to represent a concession to the church, but Peronista enough to make it clear that Perón was not surrendering abjectly. Perón also dumped overboard Eduardo Vuletich, head...