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Because many nations now have modern warships, "gunboat diplomacy is, and must be, a thing of the past," he said. He added that the definition of nautical law, a project never seriously undertaken, is necessary for any future peace on the high seas...
...stepped from a chartered Alitalia DC-8 onto Argentine soil for the first time in 17 years last Friday, and into a steady rain. The weather was remarkably similar to that on the wet and dismal night in 1955 when he fled the country aboard an Uruguayan gunboat, after being ousted from power by a military coup. This time Perón, now 77, expected better on his self-styled mission of "peace and understanding." His survival and return after all these years had the stuff of great human drama. But instead of the million-strong crowd that Peronistas...
This indictment too is already having wide impact. Even if the story is only partly true, it confirms the ugly suspicions in Latin America about a modern version of gunboat diplomacy, and about the Nixon Administration's intimacy with those old villains, Yanqui business and the "vested interests." ITT, meanwhile, is worried about the safety of its personnel in Latin America, where radicals like to take symbolic hostages...
...World War I to Mussolini to the Dust Bowl. Many of his jokes still hit home. When Whitmore says, "You all know the best place for a political convention--Chicago, of course," Rogers' words are not just an echo from 1920. Even more apt are his statements on American gunboat diplomacy: "So, we set out helping the world. We will send Marines to any nation that can get ten people to ask us. We're in the humanity business. Look folks, if we had any morals we'd use them ourselves... What would we say if the Chinese sent...
Hyperbole? Perhaps, but for some it did just that: Di Suvero became an inspirational figure to a circle of young artists who admired not only the vigor of his work, but also his tenacious will power. His background was both exotic and practical. Son of an Italian gunboat captain and steel salesman in China, he was born in Shanghai in 1933 and came to the U.S. when he was eight. Significantly for the sculpture he was later to make, he even worked as a boatbuilder on the West Coast. An elevator accident crushed his spine and nearly killed...