Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ACCION is a private organization that has sponsored community development work in Venezuela for the last three years. This fall it will initiate pilot projects in Mexico and possibly Chile...
Both in and out, it was a tough commute. A Jeep steering wheel came off. The Jeep dove into a gorge and had to be repaired with Scotch tape and fishing pliers. The governments of both Argentina and Chile, deciding that this was really a smuggling expedition, sent police along to make sure that dry flies were the only things being cast across the border...
...Alliance for Progress got off to a disappointing start, and has never lacked critics to advertise the fact. Last week from all sides came a fresh flurry of criticism and thoughts on how to set it right. At a press conference in Santiago, Chile, where he was on a state visit, Brazil's President Joao Goulart said that the Alliance "fulfills neither the objectives nor the high hopes raised when it was formulated two years ago." Goulart, whose country is the program's biggest beneficiary, called for a "cool and calm" reappraisal aimed at "remodeling" the Alliance...
...past four years, but only twelve of them survive; of those, several are in deperate shape and the four biggest-Kaiser, General Motors, Ford, Fiat-together have an annual capacity of 180,000 cars in a nation where only 100,000 were sold last year. In Uruguay and Chile, Ford's assembly plants are almost at a standstill because of an embargo on imported parts caused by a dollar drought...
This year's winners will be working on a variety of topics in four different countries. Daum plans to study the contemporary role of the Church in social development in Paraguay, while Weisskoff will investigate problems of transportation in Colombia. Moore will deal with economic problems in Chile, and Goldberg plans to work on labor and railroad problems in Argentina. Each of the students is expected to keep a journal of his experiences, to be of help to future Harvard investigators in the field...