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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...headed leadership that runs Uruguay with tough-minded efficiency. They serve on the nine-man Council of Government, whose rotating chairman is Uruguay's equivalent to President. Nardone, the current chairman, and Haedo, who takes over March 1, together pushed through a successful program to save the country from spiraling inflation. To avoid the feast-or-famine trade cycles associated with wool, traditionally Uruguay's No. 1 export, Nardone and Haedo began by modernizing cattle ranching and saw 1960 meat exports more than double the 1959 total. Next they aimed at crippling strikes, set up a government arbitration...
Many people have often wondered if the blaze that demolished the inadequate and much inferior locker house really was a complete accident. Still more have wondered if the Harvard football manager at the time of the fire happened to do some vital quick dialing to save the "critical situation...
...more effectively from being in the nature of a surprise." As the Algerian crisis worsened last week, as pundits gloomily predicted sedition, street fighting and army coups d'état, De Gaulle was in desperate need of some "piece of secret knowledge" that would surprisingly intervene and save France from factionalism and national failure...
...delegates scheduled a second meeting for mid-December, when they hope to lay the foundations of a customs union, a joint investment bank, and perhaps a plan to save money by sharing ambassadors abroad. Though some talked hopefully of an eventual loose political commonwealth, no real union is in sight; the Ivory Coast, oil-rich Gabon and industrialized Senegal have no wish to share the burdens of their poorer brothers. But as the Premiers and Presidents congratulated each other last week in impeccable French, the strength of the common cultural tie was clear, and durable Premier Houphouet-Boigny emerged...
Egypt's President Nasser has often pointed to this blow as the event which convinced him that only if he sought arms, and quickly, could he save Egypt. Failing to get them in the West, Nasser turned to make the cotton-for-guns deal with the Russians that brought Communist influence into the Middle East. As more Israeli raids followed, young Shimon Peres flew to Paris to negotiate the alliance that armed Israel with French jets and tanks and paved the way for the Anglo-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt in the fall...