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Portuguese Angolans faced still more trouble in the U.N. Forty Asian and African nations last week sponsored a proposal to put the Angola troubles on the General Assembly agenda. Just before the vote, Portuguese U.N. Delegate Vasco Vieira Garin stalked out of the Assembly hall "in the name of justice and right." Then, by a vote of 79-2, the Assembly voted to put Angola on the docket. France and Britain were among the eight who abstained. The U.S. reaffirmed its earlier stand, voted with the majority. Portugal's two lonesome defenders: Franco Spain and South Africa...
Edward Atienza is amusing as old, deaf Don Vasco, and Mario Alcalde and Ellen Madison are appropriately exuberant as Pepe and Rosita. Oliver Smith's set is striking, and the sound effects are both unusual and effective...
...Lancaster House last week, even the British were beginning to say that their utter dependence on the canal for oil imports was not really so utter. They could survive, even if put to great inconvenience. "Many are thinking," said the London Economist, "of the supertankers that will return to Vasco da Gama's way of evading Levantine pressure," i.e., the voyage around Africa. What most delegates now sought was some compromise that would concede Nasser's legal right of nationalization of the Suez Company, provided that he accepted internationalization of control of the canal...
...when a sob story sounded phony, vinegary Max Bilgray could also summon a waiter and say coldly: "Bring Mr. Smith the key to the crying room." In a warm salute to Bilgray, President Ricardo ("Dickie") Arias recently drove across the isthmus and awarded him Panama's Order of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa-doubtless a unique honor for a saloonkeeper. Bilgray will not leave Panama now that he has retired; he intends to live out his days in Colón until...
Thus did John Keats, with a poet's fine contempt for quibbling research,* immortalize the moment in 1513 when Vasco Núñez de Balboa became the first recorded European to gaze upon the Pacific Ocean. Balboa's discovery led to the conquest of Peru, and by 1535 the Spaniards were feverishly carting the gold and silver loot of the luckless Incas over Panama's Camino Real (Royal Road) to the tall treasure galleons that sailed for Spain. Last week a 28-year-old U.S. Army lieutenant, who has already retraced Balboa's path...