Word: uruguayan
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...First Spark. To blame was the state's eight-month drought, which has turned the southern part of Brazil-from the Uruguayan border to Rio-into a tinderbox. All it took was some farmers burning off their land for the next planting, cigarettes carelessly flicked away, campfires not quite snuffed out, or a spark from an old coal-burning locomotive. What started as a few scattered blazes soon blew in to hundreds of fires, then thousands...
...usually traditional U.S. Post Office Department last week recognized the existence of contemporary art. To Uruguayan-born Artist Antonio Frasconi. 44. went the department's $500 prize for his winning entry in a contest to pick a stamp to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences. Other nations prize art on stamps; Mexico has for decades used striking and sometimes beautiful work. But only with Postmaster General J. Edward Day has the U.S. strayed so radically from the more usual practice of using the department's own generally competent, occasionally torpid designers...
Aside from Cuba's predictable rage, the angriest reaction to the decisions taken at Punta del Este last week came not from the left but from the right. Returning home from the 21-nation conference at the Uruguayan seaside resort, the foreign ministers of the nations that had been willing to talk but not vote against Castro heard from some bitterly disappointed elements of their press and public...
...Uruguayan seaside resort called Punta del Este, 21 nations of the Western Hemisphere gather this week to decide whether to censure Castro, crowd him with sanctions, or merely live in discomfort with him. Castro himself is taking the meeting seriously. Heading Cuba's 40-man delegation to the hemispheric foreign ministers' meeting is his puppet President, Osvaldo Dorticós, a traveler to Moscow who ran for local office on the Communist ticket as far back as 1948. At his elbow as the delegation's "adviser" is Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, editor of Cuba's Communist daily...
...anger and frustration over the Havana-bound skyjackers captured the headlines. But it was at Punta del Este, 65 miles from the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo, that Latin American news for years to come was being shaped. With urgency and hope, 440 delegates from 21 American republics met last week in the most difficult task ever faced by an inter-American assembly: to hammer into shape President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress. If they succeeded, the conference would launch an immense cooperative pull to lift the face of Latin America. If they failed, chaos or Communists awaited several...