Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even if it is sometimes hard to separate the genuine reformers from the Communists. And there are still, as Fulbright says, Latin Americans who cry Communism to resist change. But the U.S. has found plenty of anti-Communists to back-anti-Communists who are also reformers. It wholeheartedly supports Chile's President Eduardo Frei, who beat a Marxist to win office. It has committed $119 million to help Peru's Fernando Belaúnde Terry wage a social revolution that will aid millions of backlands Indians...
...whole venture has cost $110 billion in aid to 100 countries. Right now, 72 countries are slated for U.S. aid, but 95% of it will go to only 31 of them and 74% of all development loans will go to only seven-Brazil, Chile, Nigeria, Tunisia, India, Pakistan and Turkey. Yet even after two decades as a developer, teacher, influence buyer and underwriter, the U.S. still gets surprised in the way aid programs work out. Some triumphs and failures from the ledger...
...Alliance for Progress. "I'm the son of a cowboy," explains Vaughn, who was born and raised in Columbus, Mont. He had been known in Panama as "the peasant ambassador"; after he put in an exhausting week in farmers' fields all the way from Mexico to Chile, the label seemed more appropriate than ever. Inevitably, there were formal encounters with Presidents and Cabinet ministers, but the restless, inquisitive Vaughn everywhere preferred to seek out campesinos and artisans...
Becoming a Quagmire. The winter skies darkened last month, when ten days of rain turned central Chile into a sodden quagmire. Dirt roads, track beds and bridges were washed away. A fortnight ago, when gale-force winds slammed through Valparaiso and Santiago into the Andes, bringing more rains and blizzards, Chileans recognized a new national disaster...
...seemed over at last. President Frei gratefully acknowledged emergency aid from the U.S. and other countries, and already a bootstrap effort had begun. All over Santiago last week, boy scouts and students were collecting money and clothing; the tags they wore on their coats read: "Together we shall rebuild Chile...