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Crooks also pointed out that the Inter-University Program in Near Eastern languages will be offered at Harvard this summer. The Ford program, which uses NDEA funds for fellowships, rotates among five cooperating universities, including Princeton, Columbia, Michigan, and Cornell...
...boycotting a presidential state dinner for Belgium's visiting ex-King Leopold, Frondizi bowed to the inevitable. The announcement made no bones about the reason: "Considering the resolutions voted [at Punta del Este], especially the sixth,* which obtained a two-thirds vote and is causing repercussions in inter-American policies, diplomatic relations with the government of Cuba are today broken...
...delegate, "took his trip to Punta del Este carrying a bag of gold in one hand and a bloody dagger in the other." Apparently, the Reds hoped to draw anti-U.S. support from the Afro-Asian bloc. But the Afro-Asians seemed to regard it all as an inter-American quarrel. Brazil, speaking as a member of the so-called "soft six" at Punta del Este, told the U.N. that Cuban membership in the OAS was a family affair that the OAS was capable of handling by itself...
...could take considerable comfort in the fact that every one of Cuba's 20 neighbors saw-and in their speeches condemned-the dangerous presence of a Communist dictatorship on their door steps. Of the six abstentions in the formal vote on expulsion, Mexico balked by declaring that under inter-American treaties, only "moral" condemnation was legal. Brazil, torn by economic and political chaos since Jánio Quadros' renunciation of the presidency last August, was clearly afraid that a yes vote would further divide its people. Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile had home problems as well. Even those...
...Springboard. The result was no clear-cut victory for the U.S.; but it was certainly a defeat for Cuba. If only 14 nations voted to exclude Cuba from the inter-American system, there were 20 votes in favor of Cuba's immediate exclusion from the Inter-American Defense Board, and 16 votes not only to suspend arms trade with Cuba but to instruct the OAS Council to "study the feasibility and desirability of extending the suspension" to other items. At week's end, using the resolution as a springboard, the U.S. let it be known that...