Word: galo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeling that emerged there could be no remedy. The U.S. had grown to a position of world power similar to ancient Rome or 19th century Britain. Historically, strength excites fear and dislike. "You cannot be a basic power and be loved," said Ecuador's U.S.-educated ex-President Galo Plaza, with whom Nixon talked at length in Quito...
Nixon also found poor performance in Latin American diplomacy -what Latinos call "blah-blah" Pan-Americanism. The Presidents' Conference in Panama in 1956, sponsored and attended by President Eisenhower, is scorned as "just a gesture" by U.S. friends such as Galo Plaza. Except for Communist crises -the Red threat to Guatemala -Secretary of State Dulles is virtually inaccessible to hemisphere diplomats for serious discussions. He is criticized for staying at the 1954 Tenth Inter-American Conference in Caracas just long enough to jam through an anti-Communist resolution, and fly home, leaving the question of economic relations, dear...
...development that other parts of South America have enjoyed since World War II. But back of all these factors is a democratic climate and relative political peace. Minor plots still pop up occasionally and are duly put down, but between them the administrations of Velasco Ibarra and his predecessor, Galo Plaza Lasso, add up to the longest period free of successful Thursday-afternoon revolutions since...
...same time, it was announced that James L. Galo '57 of Hollis Hall and Concord, Mass., will manage next year's team. Roger Langley '54 served as head manager this past season...
Before the eyes of diplomats, generals and other men of distinction gathered in Quito's ornate Sucre National Theater last week, Manhattan-born Galo Plaza Lasso took off his yellow, blue and red presidential sash. For the first time since 1924, a constitutionally elected President of Ecuador had served out his full four-year term and was passing the emblem of office to a constitutionally elected successor. The sash had fitted husky ex-Athlete (University of California) Plaza a lot better than it fitted bony Scholar (international law, political theory) Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, Ecuador's new chief...