Word: oases
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Jose A. Mora will step down next May after 13 years of service as secretary general of the OAS. So far the Central American and Carribean nations have managed to thwart the will of the hemisphere's great powers--the U.S., Brazil and Argentina--on the choice of a successor...
There are three candidates for the post: Galo Plaza Lasso of Ecuador, supported by the big three, Marcos Falcon Briceno of Venezuela, and Eduardo Ritter Aislan of Panama. Ritter is the man causing all the trouble. There have been four ballots since November 17, and Ritter is ahead with 10...
"For the first time they (the Central Americans) have found that by joining together they have a clout, that they can make an impact," Sol M. Linowitz, U.S. representative to the OAS, said. "They are holding fast to regional loyalty."
The U.S. government made it very plain whom it favored as the new secretary general of the OAS. Galo Plaza announced his candidacy for the post immediately as he emerged from Dean Rusks' office. They had had a long talk. Among Latin Americans, Plaza is considered very Americanized. He was...
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Mo.) Edward K. ("Duke") Ellington, D.MUS., composer, bandleader. Sol M. Linowitz, LL.D., U.S. Ambassador to the OAS, former chairman of the executive committee, Xerox Corp. James A. Michener, D.LET., novelist. Vivid chronicler of war and peace, of brave savages and flinty purveyors of civilization.