Word: inter-american
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Henry Kissinger starts off this week on another Mission: Impossible. Meeting in Mexico City with Foreign Ministers from 25 other hemisphere countries, the U.S. Secretary of State will try to improve the sour feelings that have resulted from the Nixon Administration's near-total neglect of inter-American problems. Indeed, if the conference succeeds, it will be for one reason only: nobody expects very much from...
Jack Kubisch, an expert on Brazil who worked with Kissinger in Paris during the Viet Nam truce negotiations, was named Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. John Crimmins, a former Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, was posted to Brazil; John Jova, a former Ambassador to the Organization of American States, was assigned to Mexico. Earlier this month, Kissinger flew to Panama to initial an agreement that promised to remove one of the most emotionally charged irritants in hemisphere relations-continued U.S. control of the Panama Canal...
...group of demonstrators protesting the Chilean junta yesterday interrupted the closing meeting of the Inter-American Press Association's Annual Conference (IAPA) at the ITT-owned Sheraton Boston Hotel...
...McCone's testimony that the money was to be used for an anti-Allende coalition, Gerrity maintained that it was for constructive programs, such as housing and social development, "to make Allende happy about the American presence." Later, Charles A. Meyer, then Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, repeatedly emphasized that the U.S. policy toward Chile during this period was one of strict non-intervention-a statement that seemed to conflict with Broe's testimony about CIA suggestions to create economic disturbances in Chile...
...government has continued police and military support despite the growing realization that there is now no need for "hemispheric defense" and no threat from Cuba and communist-inspired elements. In 1969, Charles Meyer, the assistant secretary for Inter-American Affairs, claimed...