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...last two years have repeatedly crossed the river in bloody attempts to topple Stroessner. But two months ago Argentine officers were shown intelligence reports that Cubans and Russians were financing some factions of the 20,000-man Argentine-based exile army. Army Commander General Carlos Toranzo Montero ordered a halt in aid and comfort to them. In an about-face, the Argentine army snatched back guns and planes from guerrillas, and last week Argentina signed a document pledging "harmonious relations in border areas...
...Desk. His reason was impeccable: the State Department freely helps students from independent new nations, but in colonial or trust territories, the department deals directly with the governing power: in short, State tries not to butt in too much in the British territory. A New York Negro named Frank Montero, president of the student foundation, wrote to Nixon, recalling his interest in Africa and asking for his help. Nixon turned Montero's request over to Satterthwaite, who promptly rejected it for the third time...
Last week, half an hour before Montero met with Shriver in Washington to work out a final agreement, Shepley called with the glad tidings: the State Department had reversed itself and was ready to put up the $100,000 grant after all. Jubilant over the sudden outpouring of funds, Montero accepted the Kennedy money, hopefully assumed that the State Department money would also be available for the student program...
Scott's denunciation brought Jack Kennedy to his feet to denounce him for the "most unfair, distorted and malignant attack I have heard in 14 years in politics." In a voice choked with emotion. Kennedy read a telegram from Montero. It was "regrettable," it ran, "that Senator Scott would attempt to reap political advantage from this nonpolitical educational program . . . The fact is, the State Department has repeatedly turned a cold shoulder to the airlift Africa program . . . On Monday of this week the State Department suddenly took interest in the project." Kennedy had been having hard sledding in Congress...
Last week a new Argentine ambassador, Carlos Toranzo Montero, was settling down in Caracas. A soldier-diplomat, Toranzo was an army leader of the 1955 anti-Perón revolt, spent two years and seven months in a Perón jail for refusing to wear a black mourning band after Evita Perón's death. Shortly after the dictator's downfall, he was appointed as Argentine ambassador to Nicaragua at a time when Strongman Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza had publicly proclaimed that Perón would be welcome in Managua. Toranzo arranged a private talk between Tacho...