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It was too early to judge how deep the changes went, but they reached into every phase of national life. The Cabinet was shaken up, army officers were ordered to keep out of politics, and prices of rice, sugar, milk and meat were slashed as much as 30%. Even a...
More Time. Instead, the U.S. concentrated its activity on trying to increase the economic health of the rest of Latin America. It agreed to a postponement (until Aug. 5) of the Uruguay meeting of OAS economic ministers to hammer the Alliance for Progress into shape. Curiously enough, the delay was...
Ramfis Trujillo denied that his men were making mass arrests. "Those detained are only those closely involved in the plot," he said. But Dominicans, after 31 years of Trujillo tyranny, fear what is in store when the corps of foreign journalists and the OAS investigating team turn off the searchlight...
President Kennedy's speech drew a roaring ovation from Parliament. He got no specific promise of action from any legislator or from Prime Minister Diefenbaker-but Kennedy had expected none. Canada is in no hurry to join the OAS. Still the President had done what Canadians have often accused...
Kennedy's formal speech (results of his informal conferences with Diefenbaker were not released) dealt with three broad topics. Firstly, hemispheric aid and participation. Essentially, the President asked Canada to do more financially and diplomatically in the counsels of the OAS toward keeping the Western hemisphere non-Communist. In this...