Word: uruguay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Party, the Israeli trip came at a time when Angolan events had increased South Africa's already deep sense of embattled isolation. The Vorster government has few friends abroad as a result of its apartheid policies; Vorster's most recent official calls have been to Paraguay and Uruguay, two of Latin America's military dictatorships. Thus a trip to Israel was especially exhilarating, particularly since Afrikaners consider Israelis much like themselves-pioneers surrounded by enemies. They are, said the South African Broadcasting Corp. in an editorial applauding Vorster's trek, "the only two Western nations...
...glass-company executive's home in an affluent suburb of Caracas. While his wife and a maid watched helplessly, Niehous, 44, was injected with a soporific and carried into the night. At first it was expected that the ultra-leftist terrorists, like the majority of their counterparts in Uruguay and Argentina, would simply demand that a huge ransom be paid by the company's big (1975 sales: $2.2 billion) Ohio-based U.S. parent. Instead, the Niehous case brought a new dimension to the political kidnapings that have been plaguing businessmen, particularly in Latin America. Indeed, it led last...
...rich deal with inflation by buying property that is likely to rise in value, such as automobiles and real estate, or stash their money in banks in neighboring Uruguay, where dollar accounts are legal. The average worker has no such sanctuaries. Like many other blue-collar workers, one factory stock clerk named Victor, 56, finds that his hard-won comforts are vanishing fast. Once his family regularly dined on beefsteaks; now, he says, "we don't know what meat looks like. We eat ravioli." His 13,000 peso monthly salary is now worth only about $40. Last year...
...Brasilia, with some human touches creeping in around the edges of the totalitarian master design−it will be a great capital in 1990 when it gets past 1984. From the plane, a fabulous fiery sunset over the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, lights coming on in Uruguay and Argentina on either side of the river. Another sunset, seen from sea level, the eye drawn up walls of ocher, rust and dusty rose to the snow fields on the crest of the Chilean Andes. Everywhere, people of charm, energy, talent, incorrigibly attracted to non-Anglo-Saxon forms...
Under the curious cover name of Jeremy S. Hodapp, Agee was assigned to the U.S. embassy in Quito, Ecuador, and then in Montevideo, Uruguay. Hodapp's good works later made him aide to the U.S. ambassador in Mexico. As described by Agee, the CIA's penetration of these South American nations was so thorough that it became a silent partner in the governments. Mexican authorities cooperated with the CIA to such an extent that the Company could tap 40 key telephone lines...