Word: montevideo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover) A mild midwinter sun glinted on the sumptuous Uruguayan resort town of Punta del Este, 65 miles east of Montevideo. It was an odd setting for talk about poverty, but there last week, in the blue and white assembly hall of Punta del Este's Cantegril Country Club, the economic ministers of 21 hemisphere nations gath ered to launch a historically dramatic new program of massive aid for Latin America's underdeveloped nations - the Alliance for Progress (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...Some confusion in Castro's own ranks was created by the defection of the Cuban consuls general in Buenos Aires and Montevideo shortly before Che arrived. They resigned and asked for political asylum in Argentina...
...venture out by themselves, were hailing passing cars with collection cans and bold demands to "stop to help a dying man." Argentine President Arturo Frondizi told a press conference: "I don't believe people can be traded for things. I want all the prisoners freed." In Montevideo, the publishers of Uruguay's biggest papers called Castro a "slave runner" and put a tractor on a downtown platform to dramatize a fund-raising drive. Brazil's staid, respected O Estado de Sāo Paulo promised to buy one tractor itself, and was immediately flooded with offers...
...Inter-American Economic and Social Council to start concrete work "in all key areas of economic and social betterment." The meeting, to begin July 15, will probably be held at the exclusive Cantegril Country Club at Punta del Este, a Uruguayan beach resort 60 miles east of Montevideo, and President Kennedy may fly down for the opening...
...tons will mean a new boost in living standards. More than $70 million in private capital invested abroad has returned home to provide new capital and new jobs. Damage from last April's floods is repaired; electric power, in fact, had increased 35% by last July. Even Montevideo's normally belligerent students are quieting down as the Nardone-Haedo leadership slowly pushes Uruguay uphill...