Word: uruguay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure to like Uruguay's President. The nephew, protégé and successor of Statesman José Batlle y Ordóñez (who 50 years ago implanted modern democracy in a country battered by civil war), Batlle Berres, 58, is an engaging blend of hotheaded leader and old-shoe egalitarian. As a newspaper publisher, radio-station operator and politico, he seems to speak authentically for his liberty-loving little (pop. 3,000,000) nation...
...though Uruguay has rare freedom and with it one of Latin America's highest standards of living, it also has mounting financial problems. The national debt total for the past three years is $72,800,000, and the government has plans to borrow another $190 million. Wool sales are lagging behind because of low prices on the world market. A wheat surplus, spurred by government subsidies, is snowballing. To complicate matters, the subsidies have encouraged cattlemen to reduce herds and convert pasture land to wheat. As a result, many of the country's packing and canning plants...
...itinerary calls for a state dinner with Vice President and Mrs. Nixon in Washington, a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, and a visit with President Eisenhower at Gettysburg. After quick looks at wintry Boston and Chicago, his party will drop in on sunnier Miami. When he returns to Uruguay, Batlle Berres will have less than three months more to serve as President. Then, under the country's Swiss-style, national-council form of government, the No. 2 man in last year's election, Alberto Zubiria, will take over the chairmanship (i.e., the presidency) for one year. But Batlle...
...strike, which 95 percent of the students in the city observed. Armed police then moved in on the protesting students, and the result was 200 students in jail, 500 expelled from the university. Even with most leaders in jail, however, FUA survived. It moved its headquarters to Montevideo, Uruguay, sent secret agents into Argentina, helped to organize labor resistance to Peron, and even held underground elections in Argentina, where 30 percent of the students managed to vote secretly...
...Uruguay shipped $19 million worth of meat and wool to the Soviet Union in 1954, but the oil, coal, steel and machinery agreed upon by Russian negotiators never showed up. In fact, no Soviet goods at all arrived in Uruguay except $22,600 worth of Pharmaceuticals. At year's end the Russians settled up-but in sterling, which Uruguay could have earned for itself in the first place...