Word: toed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Able by their arms to intimidate civilian authority, brass-hats have spent some $2.5 billion on munitions since World War II-more, in most countries, than goes for health, education and development programs. The standing armies total 500,000 men and cost $1.4 billion a year.
But while Peru's Prado drew cheers, his navy brass was quietly concluding a deal to buy two cruisers from Britain for $4,000,000. President Jorge Alessandri of neighboring Chile, who earlier had assailed the "ruinous competition" in weapons, observed that "it is not a logical attitude to...
Lonely Force. Neither Prado nor any other political leader proposes to wipe out Latin America's armed services, long a necessary and sometimes a lonely force for stability. Even in democratic Brazil, President Juscelino Kubitschek rules today because the army four years ago staged a "preventive coup" to nip...
The pinch is that from this position of strength the military demands disproportionately costly and often unsuitable tools for the job. Brazil has spent $2 billion on its armed forces in the past six years v. $1.6 billion for all public works and development programs. The refurbished carrier Minas Gerais...
Bad Buy. The officer caste, drawn traditionally from the middle class and poorer gentility, splurges fortunes on such status symbols as Caracas' $10 million officers' club, the marble-and-gilt Circulo de las Fuerzas Armadas. Early retirement is a huge drain on treasuries. Argentina has 20,000 retired...