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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...

Author: By Thomas B. Reston, | Title: OAS Power Struggle | 12/7/1967 | See Source »

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.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kudos: Round 2 | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

Accusing his accusers of hypocrisy, Banda challenged them to stop issuing empty threats against South Africa-which, after all, is the continent's most powerful nation-and concentrate instead on convincing the whites that apartheid is unnecessary. The only way to convince them, Banda suggested, is by proving that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malawi: Heroes or Neros? | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

Occupied by the British in 1833, they have been claimed ever since by Argentina, which calls the islands the Malvinas. The ownership issue has been debated before the OAS, the U.N., and even in postage stamps put out by both nations. Every Argentine schoolboy is brought up on the slogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: The Falkland Caper | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

The absorbing Washington game that Philip Geyelin calls "Lyndonology"-the study of the President-is usually more of a cutting-down than a building-up pastime. Geyelin, the diplomatic correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, adds some choice cuts. In this book, the first comprehensive study of Lyndon Johnson'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Global L.B.J. | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

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