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...million since 1961), and under the steady hand of former President Alberto Lleras Camargo, the country's Liberal and Conservative parties called a truce in their senseless civil war and pushed through an impressive series of reforms. Under the current President, Guillermo León Valencia, army civic action programs and anti-guerrilla campaigns have sharply reduced poverty-fed banditry in the backlands. That is Valencia's major success. During his 31 months in office, the cost of living has risen 45% , unemployment is up to 10%, and foreign investment to diversify the coffee and mining economy...
...Housing Board that hopes to finance 100,000 new homes by 1970. Five months after taking office, Belaúnde held municipal elections in 1,400 cities, towns and villages throughout Peru. They were the first such elections in 45 years; other governments had merely appointed the mayors and civic officials...
Last January national SDS called for a campaign to publicize the direct United States support of Apartheid in South Africa. Responding to the call, Boston SDS got in touch with civil rights, religious, peace, and civic organizations in he Boston area to join the campaign. Out of a meeting of representatives of the groups, the Boston Committee Against U.S. Support of South Africa was set up. The Committee is sponsoring publicity in the news media, speakers at group meetings and campuses in the area, in addition to the immediate focus of the campaign: international demonstrations on March 19, two days...
...Cambridge Civic Association will discuss the City's poverty problem at its annual meeting Tuesday night at the Hotel Continental. William vanden Heuvel, New England area Director of the Community Action program of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and John C. Cort, executive director of the Commonwealth Service Crops, will speak. The 3 p.m. meeting is open to the public free of charge...
...Comeuppance. In demand as a speaker, not just among Negroes but before white civic groups and on college campuses, Malcolm gained in popularity and became a threat to Elijah Muhammad's leadership of the Black Muslims...