Word: roa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ornate office Argentine Foreign Minister Diogenes Taboada, a stern old diplomat of the striped-pants school, ran his eye over a copy of a television speech by Castro's Foreign Minister Raul Roa, and stiffened with horror. Argentina's President Frondizi, as Roa expressed it, was not only "a viscous concretion of all human excrescences"; he was also "the villain of a badly composed tango...
...same time Brazil's Foreign Minister Horacio Lafer read Roa's speech and also stiffened. Roa had called him "the run-see-and-tell" of the U.S. State Department. That night, Brazil's President Kubitschek phoned Argentina's Frondizi. Next day envoys from both nations marched stiffly into the Cuban Foreign Office with protests. Said Brazil's ambassador: "My government rejects this offense against national dignity." Said the Argentine note: "The insulting phrases set an imprudent precedent...
...from home or by becoming convinced in Costa Rica that failure to act would do irreparable damage to the inter-American system. At last only Venezuela's Arcaya was left leading the crumbling opposition to the firm resolutions submitted by Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay and Mexico. The negotiators invited Roa to consult with them, but Roa highhandedly replied that he did not work at night. In the end the strong resolution went through, and Roa picked up his papers and walked...
Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa, speaking before the United Nations Security Council, labeled the U.S. a "butcher'' and asked for U.N. action to head off what he said was a theoretical Yankee invasion. Soviet Delegate Arkady A. Sobolev chimed in to renew Premier Khrushchev's claim to be Cuba's protector...
...only thing that will be accomplished will be the achievement of animosity and profound dislike on the part of our people. We do not believe in having happiness imposed upon us." Communist Sobolev got the point. Ecuador and Argentina sponsored a joint resolution to refer Roa's complaint to the regional Organization of American States. Instead of vetoing the proposal as he had threatened to do, the Russian abstained...