Word: inter-american
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...defense of the hemisphere, and the Good Neighbor policy of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Eisenhower Administration has already made one notable addition with its formula of the Good Partner (TIME, Dec. 6). Last week in New Orleans, Vice President Richard Nixon set forth before a meeting of the Inter-American Press Association a further guiding philosophy for the relationship between the U.S. and its 20 Latin American neighbors. Said Nixon...
...Orleans meeting of the Inter-American Press Association last week, Barranquilla Editor Julian Devis Echandia, defending Rojas' censorship on the ground that Colombia is "in a state of war," said that the six-year death toll in his country's civil war has now reached...
...national military academy as artillery lieutenant. Taught tactics at Superior War College in 1930s. Appointed Argentine military attaché in Santiago, Chile in 1943, where he succeeded Colonel Juan Perón who had been suspected of espionage by Chilean government. Served as Argentina's representative on Inter-American Defense Board in Washington in 1947-48. Retired as two-star general in 1951 after dismissal from command of Frist Army (HQ Rosario) for allegedly plotting against Perón Underground Career. As a leader of an ineffectual anti-Perón plot in 1952, he was jailed for eight...
...months ago, at the Inter-American Investment Conference in New Orleans, Shipping Tycoon Rudolf Hecht suggested the formation of a U.S.-sponsored company to provide capital for Latin American companies by buying their securities. Last week Pennroad Corp., TIME Inc. (which publishes editions of some of its magazines in Latin America) and South American Gold & Platinum Co. announced that they are forming just such an investment company called the Interamerican Capital Corp. It will be the first big-risk capital corporation set up "for the primary purpose of making diversified, direct commitments" in Latin American business...
...House sent to the Senate a $1.1 billion Commerce Department appropriation, after passing an amendment adding $2,250,000 to the Weather Bureau's funds for improving the emergency hurricane-and storm-warning system. The President's request for a crash program to complete the Inter-American highway in three years, instead of six, was rejected...