Word: punta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rush about the world cautiously filling in holes their policy-making superiors have dug. Perhaps it is so; Mr. Dean Rusk, being neither a diplomat or policy-maker, but a little of both, has been digging and filling furiously during the past two weeks. He insisted on the Punta del Este conference, and had to spend his time in Uruguay extricating himself from...
With a good deal of unwarranted confidence Mr. Rusk sailed into Punta del Este asking that the O.A.S. invoke diplomatic and economic sanctions against Cuba; we must keep the hemisphere pure, he said, the Alliance depends on it. By the time the most important O.A.S. members made it perfectly clear that they could not follow Mr. Rusk's logic, that they could not, in fact, see that sending coffee and Ambassadors to Cuba would injure the Alliance, Mr. Rusk's efforts shifted direction. To his credit, he persuaded Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Mexico to abstain from his resolution...
Words, bombs and bullets were the way Fidel Castro's Communist Cuba's presence in Latin America echoed through the hemisphere last week. The words ranged from mildly disapproving to outraged at the OAS gathering of 21 nations at Punta del Este, Uruguay. Many of the assembled diplomats were forcibly reminded of Castro's disorganizing power back in their home territories. In Venezuela, pro-Castro violence left 32 dead, and for a time made things warm for the government of militantly anti-Castro President Rómulo Betancourt. Riots or demonstrations erupted in Brazil. Peru, Chile. Mexico...
Laughter on the Left. Heading the U.S. delegation to Punta del Este, Secretary of State Dean Rusk tried to avoid appearing the Yankee colossus by recalling his own Georgia boyhood in "what people would now call underdeveloped circumstances . . . typhoid, pellagra, hookworm and malaria were a part of the environment in which Providence had placed us." But within a framework of democratic consent, said Rusk, an "alliance for progress" had been carried out within the U.S. And he eloquently pleaded: "Let us take action now to guard our own continent and our programs of democratic reforms against those who seek...
...gone to Punta del Este hoping to form a solid front with the twelve other nations* that had voted to hold the conference in the first place, and that were presumably prepared to vote for the same sort of judgment handed down against the Dominican Republic of Dictator Rafael Trujillo: joint diplomatic and economic sanctions. Only one vote was necessary for the two-thirds majority of 14 needed for approval. Six† were opposed to sanctions but apparently agreeable to less drastic action. Uruguay decided to wait...