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Once in May and again in August, the conference had to be postponed because of the flaring civil war in the Dominican Republic. Now at last 800 delegates from 19 nations converged on Rio's ancient Hotel Gloria for the Second Special Inter-American Conference of the Organization of...
In 1948, when it was chartered in its present form, the OAS was envisioned as a regional United Nations that would provide mutual defense, promote economic development and knit the hemisphere together into a tight community. Performance has fallen short of promise, and history is quickly passing the OAS by...
Not Since 1954. As the key political organ of the OAS, the Inter-American Conference of Foreign Ministers is supposed to meet once every five years to lay down OAS policy and give direction to the Council of OAS Ambassadors, which meets twice monthly in Washington. The foreign ministers have...
As part of the OAS peace-keeping machinery, delegates will also discuss organizing a permanent Inter-American Peace Force, on the order of the temporary force now in the Dominican Republic. Brazil's President Humberto Castello Branco made no secret of his views. "We must acknowledge," he told delegates...
"A fall in the price of copper or coffee," said Chilean OAS Ambassador Alejandro Magnet, "is more serious for our countries than Communist subversion."