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...replied that the U.S. must commit itself in advance to a revised treaty, and broke off all mediation talks. Before the OAS Council in Washington, Panama's Ambassador Miguel Moreno Jr. formally accused the U.S. of "unprovoked armed attacks." He then demanded that the OAS invoke the 1947 Rio Treaty, which commits all hemisphere nations to come to the aid of a member country threatened by aggression...
...percentage is rising as more and more people seek to escape the unemployment and near starvation of the countryside. Four of the world's 13 largest cities are in Latin America; Buenos Aires counts 7,000,000 people, Mexico City 5,500,000, Sao Paulo 4,300,000, Rio de Janeiro 3,700,000. Ten Latin American cities already have populations of more than 1,000,000 and by 1980, according to U.N. estimates, 16 others will top the million mark...
...assistant in charge of "economic warfare in Latin America" -watching Axis business operations in the whole area. Just before the war ended, Mann went to Mexico City for the Chapultepec Conference. That meeting set down the concept for a U.S.-Latin American defense plan that was to become the Rio Treaty of 1947-still the Western Hemisphere's key joint-defense document...
...embassy counselor. But even if he had wanted to, Mann could not shake his reputation as an expert on Latin America. A Communist-riddled government, with President Jacobo Arbenz as the front man, had taken over Guatemala. The State Department began its strategy-to isolate the country under the Rio Treaty. But at the same time the Central Intelligence Agency plunged ahead with a plot to back an armed assault on Arbenz' gang by Guatemalan exiles from neighboring Honduras and Nicaragua. Mann was summoned from Athens for a consultation, heard both plans, favored the CIA. "I was an activist...
Give her those good old European paparazzi any time. The Latin American version inspires sheer terror. Flying into Rio for a "rest" with her Brazilian playboy friend, Brigitte Bardot, 29, was met by 150 howling, straining newsmen who chased her clear up to his apartment. When all efforts to break in came to naught, the pack besieged the joint for four days, running their own beauty contest among the babes on Copacabana Beach and checking the trunks of all departing cars to make sure she wasn't smuggled out. Even a writ of habeas corpus failed to lift...