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...diplomacy, as in horse racing, sure things sometimes end up as also-rans. Before the start of last week's meeting in Quito of foreign ministers representing the Organization of American States, several Latin American diplomats were confidently passing the word that the OAS would vote to end the diplomatic and economic quarantine it slapped on Cuba in 1964. They were wrong. On the balloting, three nations (Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile) voted no, six (including the U.S.) abstained, and twelve were in favor-two less than the two-thirds majority necessary for passage...
...Pell and Jacob Javits, the resignation of Castro-hating Nixon, and the Linowitz Commission report recommending a normalization of U.S. relations with Cuba (TIME, Nov. 18), many delegates were convinced that the U.S. was ready to accept the lifting of sanctions. In fact, the American delegation did arrive in Quito intending to vote yes if an unbeatable majority developed. But as the vote neared, the aloof U.S. posture clearly worked against Cuba. An abstention frustrated a two-thirds majority almost as effectively as a negative ballot. At the same time, some nervous, borderline nations interpreted the abstention as an indication...
...vote may have hurt the U.S. and the OAS more than Cuba. Earlier, there had been favorable reaction to the new hands-off U.S. policy, which Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs William D. Rogers described at Quito as "healthy." But Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio of Costa Rica, which had co-sponsored the Cuban measure with Venezuela and Colombia, was openly bitter. "We have helped the United States when they needed us," he complained, "but now that we need their help, they do nothing." After the Cuban proposal failed, some Latin American newspapers, and even diplomats, claimed that...
...Latin American nations.) This time there is good reason to believe that Washington is paying attention; William D. Rogers, a Kennedy Democrat who helped draw up the study, is now Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and will be a leading member of the U.S. delegation to Quito. Rogers has said that he would like to see a normalization of relations with Cuba, including eventual U.S. recognition...
...guerrilla movement. Bolivia, whose military government last week put down an army revolt, and Paraguay may also vote no on the grounds that they are subject to Castroite subversion. Almost as if to underscore such claims, bomb blasts rocked both the Bolivian embassy and the Brazilian Cultural Institute in Quito before the conference...