Word: montevideo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Substitutes. Predictably, the Communists mounted demonstrations outside U.S. embassies from Moscow to Montevideo. At Moscow University, a bulletin-board notice cordially invited students of all nationalities to the bash. Some 2,000 accepted, marched ten abreast to the iron gates of the nine-story U.S. embassy, pelted it with ice, bricks, ink bottles, and chunks of coal from a truck that was conveniently stalled a few doors down the street...
Five of the University winners are undergraduates: Donald N. Bach of Eliot House and San Diego, Calif.; Ben W. Heineman, Jr., of Leverett House and Chicago; Robert H. Knapp, Jr., of Eliot House and New York City; Merle McClung of Kirkland House and Montevideo, Minn.; and Richard P. Sorensen of Eliot House and Salt Lake City...
McClung has returned to his home in Montevideo, Minn. for a Rhodes Scholarship interview. John Scott will take his place in the lineup tonight...
...week broke all economic and diplomatic relations with Fidel Castro's Communist dictatorship. The abstainers held that Uruguay's traditional position of nonintervention should be maintained. The other councilmen felt that the OAS decision had to be honored as part of Uruguay's treaty obligations. In Montevideo, a crowd of 2,000 pro-Castroites started to stage a rock-tossing demonstration; the cops promptly hauled out tear gas and fire hoses, and the mob retreated to the university, where it holed up for two days...
Chile & Beyond. The earliest ancestors of today's Christian Democrats turned up in Uruguay in 1910, and over the years other parties sprouted-first in Chile, then Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and on throughout Latin America. In 1947 party delegates met in Montevideo to form a hemisphere-wide confederation. Three years ago, in Santiago, the European and Latin American branches formally joined forces in a Christian Democratic World Union...