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Seven Strangers. Last week Peruvian newspapers were filled with news from the remote jungle village of Puerto Maldonado, on the Madre de Dios River in southern Peru, 35 miles from the Bolivian border. There, one evening, seven bearded young men entered the lobby of a small hotel. Curious about the strangers, a Civil Guard patrol asked for their papers. A youth with a bundle under his arm answered: "We have no papers. What do we need papers for?"The guardsmen ordered the seven to the police station...
...small-time labor leaders, intellectuals and professional men who go to Cuba on scholarships and "all-expense-paid" tours. Some return disenchanted with Cuba's socialist paradise; many others become terrorists, guerrillas and Communist party workers. Bolivia still has diplomatic relations with Cuba, and an estimated 1,000 Bolivian workers went to Cuba last year; some 400 are still there. Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico will not talk about their nationals in Cuba, but the figure runs into the thousands. Other nations frown upon travel to Castroland, but until last Feb. 15 it was no trick...
...Bolivian father sadly surveyed his nation's seven universities, then made up his mind. "I don't want my son mixed up in politics, and I don't want him to be a bad engineer because of the lack of facilities or because of endless strikes. I know he will not come back, but at least his future is assured." So saying, he sent his son off to West Germany to college...
Many more Bolivian parents would do the same if they could afford it. In the past two years, enrollment at San Andres University in the Bolivian capital of La Paz has jumped from 2,700 to 6,400. The government, which fears San Andres as a hotbed of opposition, gives the school little money, and last year actually refused a United Nations grant. In Bolivia, the university presidents and deans are elected by councils divided fifty-fifty between students and professors. Communists have grabbed control of three universities outside La Paz and are reaching for the rest...
David E. Spencer '63 will leave next week for a three-week conference to be held at Potosi, Bolivia. The campaign is sponsored by the National Student Association, the Bolivian National Union of Students, UNESCO, and the International Student Conference...