Word: bolivia
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Gualberto Villarroel, handsome, soldierly President of Bolivia, motored with his family past some hitchhikers, drew up short when a bullet whanged through his car door. Police found the Villarroels unhurt. When the suspected assassins turned out to be workers on a spree, they were released with a practical Latin explanation: "No connection with politics. Just drunks...
Chilean democrats worried as they eyed the new, deadlocked Congress, which promised no more action than its predecessor. Their Popular Front Government still existed, in spite of rightist gains. But all their neighbor countries-Argentina, Peru, Bolivia-were governed non-democratically. Unless Chile's drifting President and bickering Congress got together, the problems following peace might result in a retreat to dictatorship...
...increases over peacetime totals are to be found among China and the republics of South America. Argentina outnumbers the other Latin American delegations with 11. Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, and Guatemala follow as the list trails off to three students each from Panama and Urugday, two from Bolivia and Ecuador and an aggregate of nine from five islands of the West Indies...
...patience with Argentina, withdrew Ambassador Norman Armour from Buenos Aires, where he had had no official relations with the Government since the accession of President Farrell. Britain obligingly followed suit. So did most of the Latin American nations. Argentina found herself in diplomatic quarantine, recognized only by Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador among Hemisphere nations...
...tone of hurt dignity, the Argentines offered to appear before the assembled Hemisphere, allow themselves to be judged. They deplored the present disunity, with their Government recognized only by Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador. They claimed to have fulfilled their obligations to Pan American cooperation...