Word: oases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LATIN AMERICA A Chance to Create The Organization of American States has long been a deeply troubled and largely ineffective body. At no time were its problems more visible than when the OAS's 22 member nations set out last November to pick a new secretary-general to replace...
The trouble began when U.S. Ambassador Sol M. Linowitz openly announced that the U.S. supported Plaza, confident that Plaza had the votes wrapped up in the OAS Council. Seeing a good issue, Panama's Ambassador Eduardo Ritter Aislan immediately lashed out at Yanqui pressure, rallied support for his own...
When he assumes his post in May, Plaza will face many other problems besides petty politics. Under Mora's amiably inefficient regime, the OAS's ponderous, bureaucracy has grown from 300 people to 1,400, corruption is spreading at lower levels and a general lassitude has settled over...
Part of the reason this high-pressure campaign has stymied turns on Ritter himself. Ritter reminds one of a Tammany Hall boss, a wheeling, dealing politician who knows the workings of the OAS inside out. But many feel he doesn't have the stature needed to put life and drive...
The decision on a new chief for the Organization of American States will probably be made in an atmosphere of sweet compromise next January. But the bitter battles over Ritter have been a testing ground for the small member-states of the Western Hemisphere. They may have welded themselves into...