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...purely pragmatic. The Buenos Aires government had warned that if such permission were denied, Argentina would expropriate the U.S.-owned production lines. Last week's action-taken only three days before the foreign ministers of the world's nonaligned nations were due to begin a conference in Lima-merely extended the previous ruling to cover all U.S. firms with foreign subsidiaries...
Another anti-Israeli resolution will surface-and will probably be approved-at a meeting of nonaligned nations next month in Lima, Peru. Actually, it seems unlikely that Israel could be thrown out of the U.N. entirely, since the U.S. is committed to cast a Security Council veto to prevent that from happening. But Israel could be suspended from the General Assembly as South Africa was last year...
...Speedometers on many new GM models use "dual graphics" to record both k.p.h. and m.p.h. (in contrasting colors); metrically measured auto engines are rolling off the four-cylinder-engine assembly line at Ford's Lima, Ohio, plant...
Thanks to this arms race, tension has already begun building on the Peru-Chile border. Lima's military strongmen are believed to want to retake the Ta-rapaca province which Peru lost to Chile during the War of the Pacific (1879-1883). Peru has its new Soviet-made equipment; Santiago, meanwhile, is receiving more than $500 million in warplanes, tanks and ships purchased in the past 18 months from the U.S. and Europe. Fearing that it will be caught in the middle if war erupts, Bolivia has decided that it must modernize its weaponry to protect itself, even though...
...often failed poets who have difficulty with the fundamentals of news writing. "You have to start with the dead people, young man," advises one helpful editor. The novel's title does not refer to the church, which the author oddly does not deal with, but to a Lima bar and brothel called the Cathedral...