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...Robert Pinedo, one of the two doctors, attended an earlier SAC meeting and volunteered to serve in Cambodia. "I have a continued interest in humanity," Pinedo, who worked as a paramedic in Vietnam for a year, said yesterday...
...will help interested doctors and medical students contact international relief agencies such as Red Cross and arrange their transportation, Werner said. With SAC's assistance, Pinedo has located eight more doctors willing to work in Cambodian refugee camps...
...walked off carrying homemade guitars, cardboard boxes or cheap suitcases with their belongings. Many sported T shuts with pictures of Amilcar Cabral, the assassinated Guinea liberation leader against whose cause they had so recently been fighting. Some, but by no means all, were enthusiastic about returning home. Says Joaquim Pinedo Martins, 22: "The war was a fascist disaster, but I don't plan to emigrate. I will find my future in Portugal...
Such was the glittering surface. Beneath, the country crawled with rumors of many-hued discontent. In a wave of repression, police last week arrested conservative former Finance Minister Federico Pinedo, other prominent citizens, scores of so-called "Communists." Soldiers invaded the great Grafa textile mill, seized 500 men & women workers, let most of them go after a warning. Some Argentines thought that the militarists were heading off a popular demonstration planned for May 25, National Independence Day. But the Government gave no explanation. The surface of Argentine life went brightly smooth again...
...resignation was a confession of defeat or a maneuver to pose as a martyred patriot. Castillo blamed the Radicals for refusing to make peace, threatened to dissolve Congress and rule by duodécimo.* The Radical Chamber of Deputies cracked back by refusing to vote on the budget, the Pinedo Plan or anything else until the election frauds were investigated. Angry shouts of "Buffoon!," "Coward!," "Show-off!" filled the Chamber...