Word: latinizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...requests an appointment with Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, it is presumably to discuss a subject of considerable import to both of their governments. Thus it raised eyebrows recently-and provoked some snickers-when American Chargé d'Affaires Russell Fessenden was kept waiting while the ambassador of a small Latin American country paid a formal courtesy call on West Germany's chief executive. There was nothing Kiesinger could do about it; by diplomatic protocol, an ambassador has automatic precedence over any lesser rank...
Post Downgraded. Washington observers conclude that Nixon wants men who will merely execute, rather than offer constructive policy suggestions or innovations of their own. As Governor Rockefeller's Latin American tours have shown, the President will not hesitate to go outside regular State Department channels when he seeks fresh ideas and recommendations. This leaves the ambassador as little more than a message carrier and high-ranking partygoer, a post wanted by few big businessmen or college professors, who are traditional ambassadorial sources...
...said Nelson Rockefeller as he disembarked at Ecuador's Mariscal Sucre Airport last week on the second of four fact-finding tours of Latin America for President Richard Nixon. He soon encountered hard realities. Leftist students were out in force to give Rocky the most hostile reception of his travels thus far. A helicopter hovered protectively over the gray Mercedes carrying the New York Governor as it inched through back streets to avoid the mobs. The students fought police with bricks and stones. Stores, banks and schools shut down, traffic was paralyzed, and the smell of tear gas wafted...
...necessary to guarantee Rockefeller and his team of advisers tranquillity for their talks with President José Maria Velasco Ibarra and a dozen groups of assorted political and business leaders. They told the visiting norteamericanos what they, with local variations, have heard and are likely to hear everywhere. The Latins want more U.S. aid without strings, assured markets and better prices for their exports to the U.S. They want more control over their own resources and over the policies and profits of large U.S. companies that operate in Latin America. Ecuador, in addition, had a specific request: that...
...main function of the military to further American imperialism in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Europe...