Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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There the matter stood simmering until September of this year, when Velasco Ibarra became Ecuador's President for the fourth (nonconsecutive) time, immediately announced that he wanted the tract. When the U.S. and its three peacemaking partners held firm, the mobs began to move.
What had the U.S. done to invoke such wrath? To preserve peace in Latin America at the beginning of World War II, Washington was reluctantly involved in a centuries-old border dispute between Ecuador and Peru. At issue was a triangle of steaming upper Amazon jungle almost as big (77...
Though the U.S. was little more than a bystander, it was the obvious target of the mobs, partly because it has become the standard target of Latin leftists, partly because anti-U.S. Interior Minister Araújo was pulling some of the strings. At week's end Ara...
Last week Antenor Patiño, 65, head of what was once the richest of Bolivia's tin baronies, agreed in principle to a loan of $5,000,000 to the Bolivian government tin corporation. In return, Paz promised to let through a law that would permit Patiñ...
The marrying Mr. Patiño was getting a bargain. Shedding the first Mrs. Patiño has been his prime-and somewhat, hazardous-objective for years. In 1942 the princess walked out and filed divorce proceedings for adultery in New York State. At the time, Patiño did...