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Nearly a million people cheered his entry into Paris to visit France's Charles de Gaulle; 300,000 were on hand when he arrived in London; another 1,000,000 lined the streets of Bogota, Colombia, when he traveled south last year. And he got some massive turnouts in Manhattan during his 1960 campaigning. Last week Kennedy's orange-nosed Air Force jet carried him across the U.S. border for a three-day visit to President Adolfo Lopez Mateos and the fiercely independent, sometimes cantankerous southern neighbor, Mexico...
...almost none of the slums are there such simple amenities as running water, electric lights or garbage collection. Fortnight ago in Bogota, rats attacked a nine-month-old baby girl left alone on a pallet and nibbled her to death. The police rarely intervene. Brazil's favelas breed a notorious outlaw called the malandro-an all-purpose con man, pimp, thief and murderer. Of 5,000 country girls who emigrate to Santiago's slums each month, 500 end up in brothels...
Miss Hegeman will study South American social agencies, in particular a Columbian school for underprivileged children near Bogota. Rosaldo plans to investigate social problems of migratory Indians in Ecuador and Peru. The remaining projects are in the humanities in Bolivia and Argentina: Spencer will work on the background of the 1952 Bolivian revolution, Kahn and Miss Meyer on topics in contemporary Argentine literature...
Speaking at Stebbins Auditorium in Cambridge, Stone attacked the imposition of economic and diplomatic sanctions against Cuba as a violation of the Charter of Bogota, the agreement which organized the OAS. Chapters 15 and 16 of the Charter forbid the use of economic sanctions or other coercive measures by one American state against another for any reason...
...Alliance for Progress, Kennedy said the expected things, and want beyond platitudes in declaring that violence and tyranny could not do as well as democratic methods in reforming society. That part of his message, with its implied indictment of Castro, he put most clearly at a state dinner in Bogota. Warning against "those who tell us that the only road to economic progress is by violent Communist revolution," Kennedy pointed to Western Europe, free and prosperous, and then to the contrast of Eastern Europe, grim, grey and captive. "They promise free elections and free speech and freedom of religion...