Word: uruguay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today the tiny wool-and beef-producing nation offers so many giveaways (among them: full-pay retirement at 55) that Uruguay is all but broke. To pay its burdensome bills, the government has simply printed more money, run its foreign debt to more than $500 million, and created a galloping inflation (up 85% last year) that has triggered a string of crippling strikes and demonstrations...
Realizing that they were enjoying too much of a good thing, more than 800,000 Uruguayans signed petitions against the present system. So last week Uruguay's National Assembly voted to hold a public referendum on Nov. 27 that seems almost certain to return the country to strong, one-man presidential rule...
...Silvie Portray, for leadership in setting up treatment centers for the mentally retarded in Belgium, and Mrs. Eloisa García Etchegoyhen de Lorenzo, for doing the same in Uruguay (to each, a personal $12,500 plus $25,000 to carry on her work...
...URUGUAY Working under the Uruguayan Federation of Basketball, Volunteers will work in the interior of Uruguay, using department capitals as their focal points. Each will work with 3 or 4 clubs as coaches and will attempt to expand their club activities. They will also participate in community development activities in their areas...
...process, it would also risk splitting the Alliance for Progress, the linchpin of American diplomacy in this hemisphere, as well as the Organization of American States. Merely by pressing for the creation of the force, the U.S. will create serious dissension. Four Latin American nations--Chile, Mexico, Columbia and Uruguay--have soundly denounced the proposal. Five others -- Peru, Venczucla, Argentina, Ecuador and Costa Rica are -- known to be opposed. "This idea of collective action in the internal affairs of states," Gabriel Valdez of Chile told the ministers, "reflects a negative defensive attitude capable of destroying historically the great effort...