Word: uruguayan
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...Aureliano himself had had enough of aurelianadas for the moment; four days later he turned up at the Uruguayan embassy in the nearby suburb of Miramar and asked for asylum. Although it was the second time he had done this (the first was in 1952), Batista ordered that he be granted safe-conduct from the country...
...usual scramble to safety by the defeated. Fifteen succeeded in getting to airfields, where they commandeered three planes and flew off to Peru and Chile. The revolt's leader. Oscar Unzaga de la Vega, dramatically appeared two days later clawing his way up a river bank behind the Uruguayan embassy for a successful dash to asylum inside. Another leader, in a hospital with wounds, dodged his guards one night, leaped from his second floor window and landed safely in the garden of the French embassy next door dressed only in his underwear...
...vote of 54 to 29. The treaty, similar to U.S. pacts with seven other Latin American countries, provides simply that Uruguay sell the U.S. strategic materials in return for technical military aid and training equipment. Nevertheless, the pact had been the sole and bitter subject of debate in the Uruguayan Chamber since May 7 and was finally approved only after an angry session ending at 5 a.m. Opposition came exclusively from those extremist groups which have increasingly become the source of anti-yanqui agitation in Latin America: Communists and right-wing nationalists working together...
Under the headline URUGUAYAN GOLD MEANT MORE TO HUGO DEL CARRIL THAN THE SORROW OF HIS PEOPLE, the scurrilous piece ironically invoked the memory of his patroness Evita to attack him: "Here in Buenos Aires the people trem bling with cold stood in endless columns in the streets, silently paying tribute to their departed benefactress. There in Montevideo Hugo del Carril expressed his indifference to the national pain and man ifested the crudest monetary greed by continuing to sing from July 27 to Au gust 8 ..." Hushing the Truck. The story was not true: Del Carril had returned to Buenos...
...English rugs and draperies, and running ice water. Pride & joy of Executive Chef "Lugot of the Waldorf" is the pushbutton kitchen, visible to bife-savoring patrons in all its stainless-steel sublimity through a long window that runs the entire width of the hotel's grill room. Pronouncing Uruguayan beef the equal of Argentina's finest, Chef Lugot undertakes to serve it any style, with any of 96 sauces...