Word: gonz
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President Gabriel González Videla announced last week that uranium had been discovered in Chile. Geologists of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, secretly brought in last year by the Chilean Development Corp. (Fomento) to explore likely areas in north central Chile, found two deposits near La Serena and Vallenar. Proclaiming that "the discovery will bring the country unsuspected wealth," President González asked Congress for a law that will place all Chilean Uranium under government control...
...taught: "the conviction that Perónistas must carry out Argentina's historic mission." History, geography, economics are all to be brought into line. This move to shore up the regime by forced indoctrination of youth-a classic dictatorial technique-did not pass without protest. Cried Senator Ricardo González: "This government . . . now wants to contaminate the very wellsprings of the Argentine spirit...
...Chile's González Videla...
...individuals and not all peoples, however long they live, achieve it . . . Go into some Latin American countries where free speech is allowed, and, if an election campaign is in progress, note the campaign language painted on the walls of the town: Viva Rodríguez! Que muera González! (Long Live Rodríguez! Death to González!). The Gonzalistas, in turn, announce that when they get into power they will hang the Rodriguistas. Imagine an election campaign conducted in the U.S. or England in such terms! Imagine placards crying 'Death to Dewey...
...reporters told him that Chileans hadn't liked all the U.S. publicity about his samba dancing and fondness for late parties. "Ah," explained González with the unruffled air of a well-traveled diplomat, "in America the press gives great importance to private life; here the newspapers wouldn't even have noticed...