Word: bolivia
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...newest U.S. envoy to Latin America is urbane, white-haired Irving Florman, 53, a New York inventor and manufacturer, whose appointment as ambassador to Bolivia was announced in Washington last week by President Truman...
Tigner began calling: "Bolivia 927 . . . Bolivia . . . Bolivia . . . turn left . . . turn left . . . Traffic, Eastern DC-4 on final approach and below!" The P-38 barreled on toward destruction. Not until the last seconds did Tigner switch back to the DC-4's channel (its pilot could not hear his talk to the fighter, had no means of knowing a plane was bearing down on him from above) and order: "Turn left! P-38 is traffic!" The big plane began to turn...
...first acts of the democratic government that came to power in Bolivia's "lamppost revolution" of 1946 was to declare an amnesty for members of Razón de Patria, the ultra-nationalist military lodge behind the assassinated Dictator Gualberto Villaroel. Since then, the government has had plenty of reason to regret its generosity. In three years, RADEPA officers and their civilian supporters in the fascist Movement of Nationalist Revolution (M.N.R.) have pulled more than a dozen revolutionary attempts. Last week they tried another...
...Bolivia's Roman Catholic clergy tends to regard such activity as an intrusion into its vineyard. Many an Indian miner has been told that the Protestants are "messengers of the devil"; more sophisticated Bolivians have been warned that the evangelistas are advance agents of Yankee imperialism. From the sowing of such seed came evil fruit last week...
...gone crazy yet," he added. Argentina's President was assuring a group of Brazilian newsmen that he had no designs on his neighbors. "It has been said that we want to resurrect the old viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata [which included Uruguay, Paraguay and part of Bolivia]. When they say that, I always say: 'We have lots of land and we don't need any more...