Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week's anti-Nixon demonstrations and student riots were the result of Latin-American resentment of 25 years of "goodwill tours" with no positive diplomatic or economic action by the United States, Thomas F. McGann '41, assistant professor of History, commented yesterday...
Vanished Blandness. After the stones flew, most of Peru was embarrassed; NIXON STONED IN PERU headlines contrasted markedly with the fun-and-games note of his visits earlier in the week to Paraguay and Bolivia. Lima's Foreign Ministry sent Nixon its regrets, and the San Marcos Student Federation condemned the attack as "barbaric." Nixon deplored the "violent and vocal minority that denied freedom of expression, without which no institution of learning deserves the word 'great.'" In Ecuador, where he went next, university students, traditionally anti-Peruvian, elaborately pointed out to Nixon that Ecuadorian manners are better...
...except for a small, close-knit oligarchy, Peru is poor; laborers in Lima get $1 a day. Poverty breeds envy of the rich U.S., and a distrust of capitalism. Noted Nixon after a look at Peru: "South America is not going to support a system of free enterprise if the system appears designed primarily to maintain the status quo and protect the wealth and good life for the few." The U.S. has also suffered prestige setbacks from Sputnik and Little Rock, and from its take-'em-for-granted attitude toward its hemisphere neighbors. Latin Americans widely credit...
...world trip of 1953 or his visits to the Caribbean in 1955, the Far and Near East in 1956, Africa in 1957. The dividends instead would be the fair warning of Communist progress in Latin America and of the urgent need for U.S. attention, plus the admiration that Dick Nixon earned by his own show of calmness and courage...
...market price and a set "stabilization" price. To Canada and the Latin American countries that export metals to the U.S., the Seaton plan is a welcome alternative to the tariff increases they face. The increases, plus cutbacks in imports, have already stirred up bitter feelings, as Vice President Nixon has found out on his South American tour...