Word: oases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Human rights so dominated the OAS conference that the Panama Canal issue was overshadowed for the first time in years. Most of the OAS members seem satisfied that Washington is sincere in trying to work out a new treaty with
Little Impact. Despite the eagerness of Grenada's Prime Minister, Sir Eric Gairy, to prolong the meeting for the sake of prestige and to keep his hotels filled in the offseason, most of the foreign ministers had packed up by week's end and headed home. Deputies were...
* Two OAS member states refused to attend. Cuba has boycotted OAS meetings since the early 1960s, and Mexico objected because Chile was the host.
Kissinger could not have been much tougher without totally alienating the Santiago regime and other Latin American countries where a right-wing military trend is currently running strong. The meeting and speech nonetheless did have their impact in Chile. In a startling move, the conservative daily El Mercurio even printed...
Magical Tourist. The Secretary's eight-day trip to Latin America was his second in four months. It included stops in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic and Mexico, where the Secretary tried to resolve the nagging problem of Americans serving prison terms for drug offenses. The voyage proved that in...