LATIN AMERICA: Red Carpet

LATIN AMERICA

THE HEMISPHERE

As a part of its make-friends-with-Peron policy, the U.S. Army rolled out the red carpet last week for Argentina's No. i military man, War Minister Jose Humberto Sosa Molina. Bulky (225 Ibs.), beribboned Sosa Molina loved it. In four days of Washington wining and dining he got on the outside of everything from filet mignon (at a dinner given by Army Secretary Kenneth Royall) to Army 5-in-1 rations (at the Quartermaster General's experimental kitchen). Brisk, soldierly and correct, he went out of his way to make friends, one day waddled...

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