Word: punta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Charles H. Percy addressed party workers in New Hampshire. California's Republican Governor Ronald Reagan, in office just 100 days as of this week, has already paid three visits to Washington. President Johnson, only recently back from Guam, heads off this week to the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este for a meeting with Latin American heads of state. Of all the potential candidates, only New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller stayed put-waiting to see how the others...
...site of the three-day meeting is mildly symbolic: it is the Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este, where the treaty for the Alliance for Progress was signed by the countries' economic ministers in 1961. Despite impressive economic growth in several countries, notably Venezuela and the Central American republics, the Alliance has fallen short of its goal of freeing Latin America from the gross disparities between rich and poor, from the rigid tariff barriers that inhibit trade, and from the debilitating dependence on only one or two crops...
Watered Down. Johnson wanted to take to Punta del Este a promise of $1.5 billion in additional U.S. aid to help bring LATCOM (Latin American Common Market) into being. He asked for a special congressional resolution that would pledge the extra U.S. aid-and ordinarily he would have got it. The House passed the resolution by a 2-to-l margin, but Senator J. W. Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a critic of John son's Viet Nam policy, balked...
Casino Conference. The Presidents will find Punta del Este a delightful place in which to deliberate. A peninsula 85 miles east of Montevideo, it has miles of glittering beaches, pine-dotted lawns and flaming hydrangeas. The busy summer season-late November to March-has just ended, but an influx of 2,100 security guards, 1,800 newsmen and 2,000 diplomats and aides will make up for the departed vacationers. During the four days at Punta del Este, President Johnson is staying in a seaside white chalet called Beaulieu, which has been put at his disposal free of charge...
...pushing his programs with such self-righteous zeal that he often offended even would-be supporters. He started a running feud with the opposition-controlled Senate, which last month even denied him permission to travel to the U.S. on a state visit and allowed him to fly to Punta del Este this week only as a gesture of national pride. It was largely to show the Senate who was boss that Frei put such emphasis on the municipal elections, confident that a popular surge of votes for his Christian Democrats would intimi date his opponents. The people failed to respond...