Word: paz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...landlocked, geographically fractured, 68% illiterate Bolivia-have for a century been prone, in moments of desperation, to wry variations of the we-give-up suggestion that the country and its headaches should be divided among its neighbors. This rueful jest, repeated by a U.S. official in La Paz and quoted in TIME's March 2 issue, was turned last week into the spark for three days of anti-U.S. violence...
Next day Siles turned the magazines over to TIME's La Paz agent, but as the agent lugged them out of the palace he was waylaid by waiting members of the M.N.R. Youth-a Siles-supporting branch of the government's National Revolutionary Movement-and all the magazines were stolen. A day later two La Paz papers ran translations of the story, including the point that the remark was in jest, but the official government newspaper La Nación banner-lined: TIME, THE FINGERNAIL OF IMPERIALISM'S VILE CLAW, OFFENDS BOLIVIA. Next morning 2,000 blue...
...blocks away, and the crowd followed. There, from a balcony, he pleaded that "shouts do not solve anything, and violence is useless," but he denounced TIME's correspondent as a "journalist without scruples." Out of control, the rioters followed their leaders to stone Point Four's La Paz offices and smash 25 heavy trucks and pickups of the U.S.-Bolivian Roads Service. During one of the attacks, a 15-year-old student was killed...
Response to the article (the quotation about "abolishing Bolivia" appeared only in the local Latin American edition) was swift and violent: La Paz got annoyed, students got riled up, President Hernan Siles Zuazo (in the drab, grey palace where he is guarded constantly by an unmanned machine gun) got worried, 10,000 copies of Time got burned, the American embassy got attacked. Summoned from Secretary Dulles' cloud chamber at Walter Reed Army Hospital, temporarisecretary Chris Herter, a genially proper Bostonian, expressed hope that "a magazine would not be permitted to disturb the traditionally good relations that have existed between...
...streets of cloudy La Paz (alt. still 11,900 ft.) were in a turmoil, American officials were reported in hiding near the capital, pre-peregrination of personnel by plane from La Paz. Meanwhile, lordly Luce was still "unavailable for comment" in his 40th-floor office in the Time-Life Building in Manhattan's monument to money, Rockefeller Center...