Word: alianza
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...buccaneer, a demagogue. In his messianic public oratory, he has at times approached the emotional level of a Fidel Castro. But the revolution that Belaunde carries forward is peaceful, democratic, and made in Latin America. As far as the U.S. is concerned, he is the very model of an Alianza President...
...Inflation. The biggest foreign investment, however, is still in the form of U.S. aid. Last year the country was granted a record $86.8 million in Alianza help, four times the 1960 aid package. Belaúnde still impatiently complains of all the delays and red tape in disbursing funds. "Peru is being studied to death," he recently told U.S. officials. "We have pre-surveys, pre-pre-surveys, pre-investment surveys, pre-pre-investment surveys. Committees of experts study us. Everybody studies us, and in spite of all these studies, Peru is moving ahead...
This week Jack Hood Vaughn, 44, current U.S. Ambassador to Panama, moves into the heavyweight class as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, succeeding Thomas C. Mann. As such, he will coordinate and direct all Alianza aid programs in Latin America, oversee the State Department's Latin American section, and generally act as President Johnson's top policymaker, adviser and troubleshooter for that area. The assignment promises to be quite a workout, but Vaughn seems in shape...
...just back from a visit to Brazil's underdeveloped north east state of Alagoas, looking for ways to help Brazilians help themselves. In one village the North Americans promised assistance for ten self-help projects, starting with a powerful pump for an irrigation well. Arthur Byrnes, assistant Alianza director for Brazil, explains: "This program is small in terms of dollars. But it is reaching the people directly, bringing about immediate results, and that makes a great difference...
...wormed his way into Rio society with critically acclaimed verse, through his contacts built up a huge business complex (15 supermarkets in Rio alone), in the 1950s became President Juscelino Kubitschek's top speech writer and the brains behind his "Operation Pan America," forerunner of the Alianza; of a heart attack...