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...projects have ignited Latin American imaginations more than Peruvian President Fernando Belaunde Terry's "Marginal Highway." Envisioned as the key for unlocking the vast, virginal resources of the eastern Andean foothills, the road was originally planned to run 1,500 miles across Peru...
...confidant of Fidel Castro and the author of a new handbook on guerrilla warfare (Revolution in the Revolution?), Debray was captured last April as he walked out of an abandoned guerrilla camp in the Andean foothills. With him were Argentine Painter Giro Roberto Bustos, who stood trial with Debray, and British Free lance Photographer George Roth, who was later released. At first, Debray claimed that he was a journalist on assignment for a Mexican magazine and backed up his claim by describing how he had interviewed Che Guevara in the bush. That gave the Bolivian government its first real evidence...
Even so, it is no weekend hacker's jaunt. Though McKinley does not pose the classic technical challenges of the great Himalayan and Andean peaks, it is nonetheless known for the worst mountain weather in the world. Soar ing 20,320 ft. into the subArctic sky, McKinley is exposed to 150 m.p.h. winds that batter the mountain's upper reaches with sledgehammer blows and are even more fierce than McKinley's 72-below-zero cold...
...AYAHUASCA, a drink made from plants by various tribes of the western Andean slopes, is essentially the same as two other psychoactive drugs, yagé and caapi. While something has been learned of its effects and composition from on-the-spot studies, more may soon be learned on the University of California's Berkeley campus. For there, following its mention in William Burroughs' Naked Lunch, yagé is now being peddled surreptitiously as "the jungle drug" or "the tiger drug." So far, those who have taken the substance have not told scientific investigators of its effects...
...discuss economic integration and other regional problems of the hemisphere. The response was overwhelmingly in favor, and only the time and place remained to be set. Last week, in a small warmup to the bigger meeting, President Frei flew off to Bogotá for a threeday, five-nation "Andean summit...