Word: uruguayan
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...direction to the Council of OAS Ambassadors, which meets twice monthly in Washington. The foreign ministers have not met at all since 1954, except for one-shot meetings on such urgent matters as applying sanctions against Castro's Cuba. Among other reforms, José A. Mora, the able Uruguayan lawyer who serves as OAS Secretary-General, wants a meeting of foreign ministers at least once a year. "I cannot say that such a meeting might have foreseen or prevented the Dominican crisis," Mora said. "However, had the system provided for an annual conference, the resulting exchange of information would...
...Council's attempt to hold the wage line is only the first tentative step to recovery. Uruguayan economists, with Alianza help, have put together a ten-year development plan which runs to 3,600 pages, calls for a sweeping reorganization of the country's social security system, sharp restrictions on imports, and increased agricultural production for export. Given the temper of Uruguay's 1,000,000-man work force, any steps at all may well prove impossible. Last week 130,000 government workers rejected a relatively reasonable 15% raise, walked off their jobs demanding...
...Latin American assemblages glued together out of such rummage-sale remnants as sequined bras, false teeth, rubber gloves and old shoes. There was pornography from Holland by Johannes Oldeboerrigter (painted genitalia piled on platters) and pornography from Sweden by Ulf Rahmberg (comic-booklike engravings of copulation). There was a Uruguayan artist named Carlos Paez who offered a circus happening in a black tent with motorized cutout forms, flashing lights and noises of factory din, screams, sighs and sobs controlled by the artist himself from an electrical console. Said Paez: "I want to present the quintessence of a slice of life...
...Eight Uruguayan officials, led by Agriculture Minister Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, walked uneasily into a private office at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York one day last week, unpacked their briefcases, charts and account books, and for 2½ hours pleaded for help from representatives of seven metropolitan banks. The same day, the Uruguayans shuttled to Washington for similar meetings with officers at the International Monetary Fund, Inter-American Development Bank and Inter-American Committee for the Alliance for Progress. The sad truth, only too obvious to the bankers, was that tiny Uruguay is almost flat broke, and, like...
Social Parasite. Uruguayan scientists working for the department stumbled on the secret while they were searching for a fungus or a bacteria that might be fatal to fire ants. They discovered that in Uruguay, where the ants are native they are no serious problem. Often they are so weak that they build flimsy nests which wash away in the rain. This suggested not an ant killer but a social parasite...