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...convent. It is hardly that. Inside is the Soviet Union's biggest embassy in Latin America and the clearinghouse for Soviet propaganda and subversion in the Southern Hemisphere. Up to now, the Uruguayan government has never bothered to interfere. But suddenly last week Uruguay's ruling nine-man National Council cracked down, ordering four Soviet embassy officers out of the country and serving notice on the others to watch their step...
Uruguayans pride themselves on having the purest democracy in the Western Hemisphere. They got it 14 years ago, when the nation abolished its one-man presidency and set up a Swiss-style nine-man National Council, in which four members of the majority party take annual turns as the country's nominal President. It turned out to be too much of a good thing, for the government was paralyzed much of the time and the men in power could not resist voting an ever greater welfare state for its 2,600,000 people...
Gone Again. Police whisked him off to a hospital, where he was identified as Hsu Tzu-tsai, chief of Red China's nine-man delegation to the International Congress for Welding Technique at the nearby University of Delft. He had a fractured skull. "This man has been maltreated," said the examining doctor, "possibly even tortured...
...original members of the nine-man governing board and Miss Susan Bartho-lomew, RGA secretary and executive secretary of the program, have selected five new board members. Samuel S. Bowles, instructor in Economics, who recently refused to sign the Massachusetts Teachers Loyalty Oath, was selected to represent the faculty...
...Progress more than a one-way street for American aid, its 20 members appointed a panel of nine Latin American economists to study the best manner of achieving mutual interdependent development. Trouble was that the "nine wise men" lacked any real power; so a more influential Inter-American Committee (CIAP) was created. Last March in Buenos Aires, the Alliance voted to trim the nine wise men to five, and put them under CIAP as a technical committee. Last week the whole nine-man panel resigned, firing broadsides at the Alliance as they went...