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...Bolivian tin miners are tough and violent men. Last month a gang of miners with a vague and perhaps imaginary grievance dragged a member of the legislature from his house, strapped a stick of dynamite to his body, and blasted him to bits. When his pregnant wife came running out of the house waving a white handkerchief, a miner shot her to death...
...Bolivia for transfer to the modern facilities of Gorgas Hospital. First to land were Wisconsin-born Dr. Ronald MacKenzie, 38, and Panamanian Technician Angel Muñoz, 42. At Gorgas, the fearful diagnosis made in the field was confirmed: both were victims of a newly discovered and deadly disease, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever. By midweek, the C-130 with its doctor-nurse team had made another trip, carrying New Jersey-born Virologist Karl Johnson, 34. He also had the fever...
...Bolivian doctors concluded that the disease was a form of hemorrhagic fever similar to those already known from Manchuria, Korea, India and Argentina. But was the responsible virus the same as any of those from other lands? And what animal or insect transmitted the virus to its human victims? Bolivia asked the internationally sponsored Middle America Research Unit, based in Balboa with Arizona-born Dr. Henry K. Beye as its head, to mobilize its forces for a jungle...
From Caribbean bases, the U.S. Air Force flew ten tons of supplies to Bolivia in March, and four tons of laboratory gear in May. The Bolivian air force flew it all to San Joaquin. There, a team of physicians, virologists, entomologists, and ecologists set to work. First, the disease detectives plotted where the fever victims had lived-and died. They put healthy monkeys in single cages and left them for days in the forest where four woodcutters had . I worked just before they became ill. They put other "sentinel" monkeys in houses left empty by the deaths of whole families...
...Revolution. Javier's companions were all university students from upper-or middle-class families. All had traveled to Cuba on scholarships, all had been persuaded to attend Che Guevara's terrorism and guerrilla warfare school at Minas del Frio, all had sneaked back into Peru across the Bolivian border with arms, supplies and money. Their objective, said one of the survivors, was to infiltrate and agitate workers' and peasants' unions in order to prepare the way for the Peruvian revolution. According to the Peruvian government, these seven were only a small part of a larger force...