Word: ritter
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There are three candidates for the post: Galo Plaza Lasso of Ecuador, supported by the big three, Marcos Falcon Briceno of Venezuela, and Eduardo Ritter Aislan of Panama. Ritter is the man causing all the trouble. There have been four ballots since November 17, and Ritter is ahead with 10 votes to Plaza's six and Falcon's five. It is a virtual deadlock--Ritter is two short of a majority--and the OAS has given up for the moment to let tempers cool. It will try again in January...
Political infighting over the secretary generalship has been ugly and high-pressured, often resorting to strong-arm political threats. Just last Thursday one of Ritter's partisans in the secretariat, Luis Raul Betances, a Dominican, was fired after another angry Dominican delegates reported that Raul promised to have him removed if he did not change his vote from Falcon to Ritter...
...Raul's threats succeeded, Ritter's supporters would have been able to go into the last ballot only one vote short of a majority. They would have been in a strong position to pressure the rest of the member-states into line. But Raul failed, and the scandal has probably killed Ritter's chances...
Ballots are secret in this election, but Ritter's support almost surely came from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, and Panama. Marcos Robles, Panama's president, considers the election very important, and has reportedly been making phone calls to his colleagues all over the continent. Broad hints were dropped that if Ritter doesn't get the job, the United States might run into more trouble over the Canal Zone...
...other decisive Ivy battle, Cornell's Bill Robertson connected on 21 of 36 pass attempts for 254 yards and a heady 24-21 victory over Dartmouth. Robertson heaved the winning aerial late in the final quarter, a 12-yarder to Chris Ritter. The loss knocked Dartmouth out of the running for the league crown; Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton have lost two games, while Yale is undefeated with one game left...