Word: uruguay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explosion in a military arsenal that killed 32 had Brazilians worried. But in the last fortnight, police had rounded up 300 comrades, including the biting & scratching sister of Leader Luis Carlos Prestes. Brother Luis, who had been in hiding for months, was reported to have escaped to neighboring Uruguay. If he had, the Uruguayans did not know...
...What Are We Here For?" The U.N. General Assembly, meeting at Flushing Meadows last week to wrestle a third time with the Palestine problem, seemed as paralyzed as its bewildered representatives in Jerusalem. Uruguay's Delegate Dr. Enrique Rodriguez Fabregat asked irritably of his gloomy fellow delegates: "What are we here for?" By week's end there had been no answer from U.S. Delegate Warren Austin, to whom the assembly looked for a new plan to replace partition. Behind the scenes, however, the U.S. was trying to work out a temporary U.N. trusteeship. But before any plan could...
Died. General Alfredo Baldomir, 63, ex-President of Uruguay (1938-42); in Montevideo. A friend of the Allies early in World War II, dapper Baldomir used police-state methods to suppress pro-Nazis in his government, but gave Uruguay a more democratic constitution before he bowed...
...other grains, meat fats and oils, mainly from Argentina and Uruguay...
...eager mea culpa mood pervaded the entire congress which last week in Milan assembled almost 3,000 Communist delegates from eleven nations. Technically, it was the Sixth National Congress of the Italian Communist Party, but influential guests came from Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, France, Britain and Uruguay...