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...Barrientos liked to brag that he had walked away from 25 air crashes of one kind or another. Last week, making one of his rural visits, he failed to survive the 26th. Traveling by helicopter with a pilot and military aide, he landed on a basketball court in the Andean village of Arque. He dedicated a school honoring John F. Kennedy and a new public health dispensary, presented money for a town water-supply system and paused briefly for refreshments and handshaking. Then, with a final wave, he departed for the village of Tacopaya, 25 miles away. Rising to clear...
...miners are thus a potent group that strikes frequently. During one protest against Barrientos in 1967, the President went down into the mines to confront them. An angry miner held out a dynamite stick and, to scare the President, threatened to blow the assemblage higher than Bolivia's Andean Altiplano. Barrientos grabbed the stick, held it out to be lit and called the miner's bluff. Last year Barrientos took charge in the jungle of the government troops who cornered and killed Che Guevara...
MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Marlin Perkins joins Explorer-Naturalist Jim Fowler in the Peruvian Andes to search for one of nature's grandest gliders, the Andean condor...
...plunged into his tasks vowing to do "twelve years' work in six." Eager to aid Peru's impoverished peasants, he launched a whirlwind campaign to build houses, schools, rural airports and roads. The symbol of his dreams for Peru was a new highway cutting into the trans-Andean forests, each mile of roadway completed opening up 3,500 acres of land...
...acclaim was a tonic. After months of agonizing over his encyclical on birth control, then weeks of widespread and often bitter criticism, here was simple, uncomplicated, old-fashioned affection. The papal presence transformed Colombia's somber capital, insulated 8,355 ft. high on a plateau between two Andean ranges, into a scene of sheer, uninhibited joy. Shoulder to shoulder, an estimated 500,000 bogotanos lined the eight-mile route to town, straining for a glimpse of their spiritual leader, who rode in an open-topped Lincoln Continental, and waving white handkerchiefs in the South American flicker of greeting...