Word: uruguay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only last April that Latin American heads of state met in the gambling casino at Punta del Este, Uruguay, and agreed to get a Common Market in operation by 1970. By last week, that heady promise seemed to be considerably behind schedule. Assembled at Asuncion, Paraguay, to work out a preliminary plan for cooperation, the foreign ministers of the Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA) agreed on little but the magnitude of their differences...
...meeting got off to a fast start as the ministers churned out a steady stream of "agreements in principle" on the pace and percentages of the first tariff cuts. They even went along with Uruguay's plea that "an acute economic and financial crisis" entitles it to be classed among the "less developed" countries for the next five years, despite the fact that its people normally enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the LAFTA region. But such happy harmony was soon shattered when the three other "less developed" nations-Paraguay, Bolivia and Ecuador-demanded that their...
...years of carting his clubs around the world, De Vicenzo since has won upwards of 120 tournaments, including the national open championships of Argentina (six times), Brazil (three times), Chile (three times), Jamaica (three times), Panama (twice), Uruguay (twice), Mexico (twice), France (three times), Germany, Holland, Belgium and Spain. On Britain's wind swept par-72 Royal Liverpool Golf Club course two weeks ago, Roberto fired rounds of 70, 71, 67 and 70 to beat Defending Champion Jack Nicklaus by two strokes and add the prestigious British Open title to his collection...
...ability to make the Presidents feel that he -and the U.S.-really understood their problems and wanted to help. That was no mean feat at Punta del Este, where Johnson was a very big fish in a very small pool. Employing the strictest security precautions in its history, Uruguay cordoned off the peninsula with 1,000 police and 600 soldiers, who allowed only accredited newsmen and diplomats to pass roadblocks. Guards stood on rooftops with high-powered rifles and studied the surroundings through binoculars. Security agents monitored each of Punta del Este's 4,000 telephone lines...
Uprooting Bushes. The inflationary rise is getting a strong tail wind from the country's primitive agriculture, which is failing to keep up with the annual increase in the birth rate. Last year, Brazil's population increased almost roughly by the equivalent of the total population of Uruguay (pop. 2.7 million). Yet Brazil's farm tools and techniques are so antiquated that the country actually produces less corn and wheat per acre than it did 30 years ago. Moreover, one-fourth of what it does produce spoils before it reaches market because of poor transportation and storage...