Word: uruguay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tariffs and quotas to protect what remains of the U.S. shoe industry, Strauss has negotiated a tentative agreement with two big exporters to the U.S.-Taiwan and South Korea-that would provide for cutbacks in their shipments. The White House hopes that other major exporters, notably Spain, Brazil and Uruguay, will continue to restrain their shoe exports...
...press conference, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance told a Senate subcommittee that the Administration was adopting an unprecedented policy. It was recommending a reduction in the budget for foreign aid to three nations because of their repressive policies: Argentina (credits cut from a planned $48.4 million to $15 million), Uruguay (a drop of $2.5 million) and Ethiopia (the loss of its entire allotment of $11.7 million in military help). At the same time, Vance acknowledged that aid would continue undiminished to South Korea, a country notably intolerant of dissent. South Korea would get aid, said Vance, because it was strategically...
...Uruguay. An estimated 50,000 to 60,000 citizens have been jailed or interrogated in the past five years...
...foreign policy more sensitive to the problem of human rights are to be commended. These initiatives--the reference to human rights in President Carter's inaugural address, his support for Andrei Sakharov and other Soviet dissidents, and his administration's cut-back in aid to repressive regimes in Argentina, Uruguay and Ethiopia--mark a welcome change from the amorality of U.S. foreign dealings under Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50. There are also indications that Carter's support for human rights has begun to have an effect: several U.S. aid recipients have announced in the past months that they plan...
Laqueur, a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., compares modern terrorism with bygone atrocities. He coolly concludes that urban guerrilla movements, such as the extinct Tupamaros of Uruguay, may have seen their day. The reason, as Laqueur dryly notes, is that the decline of liberal democracy in many parts of the world makes it harder to be a terrorist. The Tupamaros, for example, began not under the heel of a dictator but in one of Latin America's most democratic nations. The membership, much of it privileged youth, successfully undermined the authority...