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Died. Victor Andrés Belaúnde, 82, Peruvian Ambassador to the U.N. and uncle of his country's President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, who was among the U.N.'s founding fathers at San Francisco in 1945, played a leading role in breaking the East-West deadlock over admission of 16 new members in 1955, and saw his reward when he was elected president of the General Assembly in 1959; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Bearhugs & Namesakes. Meeting in the small Peruvian border town of Puerto Patria, Barrientos and Belaúnde greeted each other with bear-hug abrazos, and made a few speeches. The party of 55 traveled on by barge, truck, foot and air, making up the trip as they went. Aboard his DC-6, Belaúnde manned the public-address system, describing the dense, steaming jungle below and every twist and turn of the marginal road. "That's the Tambo River," Belaúnde noted, "where I came down the rapids in a raft." Over there was Tingo Maria...
...tiny village of Shanao, Belaúnde asked the name of a new bridge that was going up. "The Rio Mayo," answered a local official. "No," Belaúnde corrected. "Henceforth, this will be known as the Bolivia Bridge, in honor of the great Bolivian President." Not to be outdone, Barrientos announced that he was naming a small town on the Bolivian stretch of the highway "Fernando Belaúnde Terry...
...Hard Business. Among the handshakes and ribbon snipping, Belaúnde and Barrientos talked hard business...
After a final, hearty abrazo, Barrientos flew to La Paz, where he made preparations for another summit meeting this week-with Brazil's President Humberto Castello Branco. Belaúnde got into a helicopter and whirred off to the isolated, primitive Peruvian village of Aguarunas, where his interpreter explained to the curious Indians that this tall, grey-haired white man was the President of something called Peru. While the Indians laughed and shrugged in confusion, Belaúnde threw an arm around one for a quick photograph, then popped back into his helicopter for another stop or two before...