Word: quito
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classic Latin American scene. At 2 p.m. one day last week, eight tanks rumbled up to the presidential palace in Ecuador's Andean capital of Quito. Radio bulletins soon blared the news: Carlos Julio Arosemena, 44, the country's 46th President in 130 years, had gone the way of many of his predecessors-deposed by military coup. A crowd of demonstrators gathered at the palace to protest to the new rulers; and tanks opened fire. Three persons were killed, 17 wounded. In the palace, Arosemena refused to resign at first, then bowed to superior firepower and was bundled...
...also well known as a powerful man with a bottle-and in office the binges seemed to have grown more frequent. For days at a time, he failed to show up at his office in the palace. In November, he kicked up a royal fuss in a Quito nightclub; he showed up sloshed for his talk with President Kennedy on a state visit to the U.S. last July, almost fell on his face at Guayaquil's airport five months later when he went out to greet Chile's strait-laced President Jorge Alessandri...
Undecorous Acts." Last week at a formal dinner in Quito honoring Admiral Wilfred J. McNeil, president of Grace Line, Arosemena was full of liquid passion. Evidently upset over the squabble with U.S. tuna fishermen, he told off U.S. Ambassador Maurice Bernbaum in loud, undiplomatic language. "The Government of the United States," declared Arosemena, "exploits Latin America and exploits Ecuador." He then, said the dinner guests, committed a series of "even more undecorous acts," and vomited in front of the gathering. At an all-night meeting, officers of all three services agreed that Arosemena...
...Three of the 82 cardinals are not expected to appear: Hungary's Josef Mindszenty, 71, whose safe-conduct from Budapest has not yet been negotiated; James McGuigan, 68, of Toronto, and Carlos Maria de la Torre, 89, of Quito, both ailing...
...less bearish. According to the best estimates, Latin Americans have $11 billion invested abroad and stashed away in U.S. and Swiss banks. How much went out last year is hard to pin down, but U.S. economists think the figure could be as high as $800 million. Said a Quito businessman, with feeling: "If all the capital abroad would return, Ecuador could be very well off. No basic foreign aid would be necessary...