Word: ra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin America, the name is so common that no one blinks when U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Raúl Castro, 50, introduces himself. But in the U.S., the handle can be a headache, particularly in places like Miami, hotbed of militant Cuban exiles, where the name of Fidel's kid brother and Defense Minister is anathema. "I was in Miami not long ago," the Mexican-born U.S. career diplomat told the Nucleus Club in Phoenix, "and 20 minutes after I checked into a hotel, the word got around that Raúl Castro was in town...
Last week Raúl Roa, Cuba's Foreign Minister, revealed what the real trouble was: by some unexplained shift, the Cubans suddenly pretended that it was false to assume that the fate of the Americans had even been discussed. The Americans would eventually be permitted to leave, allowed Roa, but only after all the Cubans who had a "right" to leave had done...
Host was Colombia's newly inaugurated President Carlos Lleras Restrepo, who, with Frei, was joined by Venezuela's President Raúl Leoni, Ecuador's former President Galo Plaza Lasso, who substituted for Ecuador's Interim President Clemente Yerovi Indaburu, and Peru's former Premier Fernando Schwalb, who was filling in for President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Among the balls, banquets and other ceremonial gatherings, the five met to discuss mutual economic and industrial development and the problems of the ailing Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA). A LAFTA ministerial meeting is scheduled...
With André Malraux, France's Minister of Culture, adoration of art knows no bounds. He has put Marc Chagall's lovers on the ceiling of the Paris Opéra, Maillol bronzes in the Tuileries gardens, Masson's abstracts in the dome of the Comédie Française. He has washed the face of Paris from a dingy grey to honey-colored sandstone, and his art history, Voices of Silence, was a monument to a world he saw as "a museum without walls...
...Cabbages and Kings, O. Henry lightly-if somewhat fondly-dismissed Central America as a collection of "little opéra bouffe nations" that "play at government and intrigue." The generals always ran the show, and elections-when they were held at all-were ruthlessly rigged. More than 50 years later, most Central American countries still only play at the game of government. But a few are quietly breaking tradition, judging by two recent presidential elections...