Word: moscoso
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...Young Communists." In 1958, appeals by Communists and their friends produced such mob frenzy that the car carrying the touring U.S. Vice President was stopped and stoned; Nixon was unharmed, but his visit was ruined. Last week Venezuela's Communists were out to get new U.S. Ambassador Teodoro Moscoso when he ar rived to take up his post. But their best efforts were unable to mobilize a single rock-throwing rioter...
Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt took grim care to ensure the safety of Puerto Rico-born Moscoso. No arrival time was published in the press; inflammatory wall scribblings were quickly erased. The complement of 80 national guardsmen stationed along the superhighway from the airport to the capital was reinforced by 1,200 troops. Sirens screaming, 20 police cars escorted Moscoso to the embassy residence...
...Moscoso, the result was a peaceful ride up the hill to his new job. And for Betancourt, it was another indication that he may at last be getting his faction-torn country under democratic control...
Last year, as a measure of his success, Moscoso, now 50, was able to move on once more. He went to Manhattan for some "belly-to-belly" selling of more blue-chip U.S. corporations on the advantages of setting up shop in Puerto Rico. A second job was an invitation to join the Kennedy task force on Latin America. He was also appointed U.S. delegate to a new U.N. Committee for Industrial Development. Last week, making his first speech at the U.N., Moscoso outlined Puerto Rico's successful principles of industrial growth: sound government, with adequate planning, budgeting...
...Moscoso's maiden U.N. speech, President Kennedy picked him as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela. He will be the first Puerto Rican to represent the U.S. as an ambassador abroad. Venezuela's President is Reformer Rómulo Betancourt, an old friend of Moscoso's. In Puerto Rico, Governor Muñoz Marin called the appointment "a very good thing for Washington, a very good thing for Caracas, but a bad thing for San Juan...