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...worth. Lately it has been seeking to buy an additional $29 million worth of wheat and vegetable oil under the easy payment terms of the Food-for-Peace program. However, as a result of two restrictive amendments passed by the last session of Congress, the flow of food to Tito's homeland has been mired, and finally halted, by an obscure bridge buster called the Findley Amendment...
Dead Deal. The hassle has upset the Johnson Administration, which feels that its foreign policy aims are being undermined, and it has caused a furor in Yugoslavia. As President Tito said recently: "It comes at a time of implementation of our economic reform and causes difficulties. It doesn't improve relations." Nor were relations-or Tito's case-helped last month by three angry anti-U.S. demonstrations in Yugoslavia...
...most celebrated candidate in Panama's 1964 congressional elections was a dashing aristocrat named Roberto ("Tito") Arias. Part of his glory was admittedly reflected: both his father and an uncle had been Presidents of Panama, and his wife was Britain's foremost ballerina, Dame Margot Fonteyn. But Tito Arias could claim his own marks as well. Twice (when his family or friends were in power) he had been his country's Ambassador to London. Twice (when opposition families were in power) he had led spectacular, quixotic plots to overthrow the government, the last time in 1959 when...
...received medical care and therapy. Dame Margot gave up her jet-set social life to spend her offstage hours at his bedside. The convalescence was slow, painful and only partial; Arias will probably never walk again, and his speech is still incomprehensible to everyone but his wife. Last year Tito Arias was finally pronounced well enough to leave the hospital...
...With Dame Margot proudly pushing his wheelchair, he entered the National Assembly as it reconvened for 1967 and claimed the seat he had won more than two years ago. Six times in the course of the session, all 41 members, friend and enemy alike, stood and applauded Tito Arias for a victory far more impressive than any that has ever been won at the polls...