Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble began when U.S. Ambassador Sol M. Linowitz openly announced that the U.S. supported Plaza, confident that Plaza had the votes wrapped up in the OAS Council. Seeing a good issue, Panama's Ambassador Eduardo Ritter Aislan immediately lashed out at Yanqui pressure, rallied support for his own candidacy and on the first ballot managed to prevent Plaza from getting the 15-vote majority that he needed for election. When the voting was still deadlocked after three more ballots, the Council declared an eleven-week "cooling-off" period. In the end, Ritter defeated himself by calling a special session...
When he assumes his post in May, Plaza will face many other problems besides petty politics. Under Mora's amiably inefficient regime, the OAS's ponderous, bureaucracy has grown from 300 people to 1,400, corruption is spreading at lower levels and a general lassitude has settled over the organization. But if anyone is equipped to meet the challenge and help the OAS achieve its goal of Latin American cooperation and development, Plaza...
...time President of Ecuador, Plaza himself served as his country's President from 1948 to 1952, becoming Ecuador's first chief of state in modern history to keep the army out of the palace. He also won a wide reputation as a shrewd internationalist while serving as a U.N. troubleshooter in Lebanon, the Congo and Cyprus and heading the hard-working United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America. What Latin America needs most, Plaza once said, is a "strong, dynamic, creative" OAS. Now he has the chance to see if he can create just that...
...PLAYS Plaza Suite A Neil Simon comedy is a small body of plot surrounded by laughter. He and Director Mike Nichols are Broadway's most consummate mirtholo-gists. Playgoers at Plaza Suite don't have their ribs merely tickled, but tackled-by Simon, Nichols and two other professionals in top form, George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton...
...evening consists of a trio of one-acters, all set in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. Each of the playlets concerns a middle-aged man (Scott) and woman (Stapleton) who are at the end of something rather than the beginning of anything. The underlying tone of much of the humor is that of middle-aged rue mocking itself, the slightly hysterical funmaking that springs less from high spirits than low morale...