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...paper-a painful reform long advised by the International Monetary Fund. He welcomed foreign capital with open arms, gave Western Union a contract (over nationalist protests) to set up a new communications system for Brazil, gave Ford the go-ahead for a new tractor plant, while turning down a Czech tractor deal. He spent, too, with caution. When a state governor begged $400,000 for a fisheries project, Quadros promised $80,000. "I was a governor myself, your excellency, and I sympathize. But I don't want to leave here with my wallet emptied...
...Caracas, Venezuela, the government of liberal President Rómulo Betancourt, whom Castro calls a "lackey of imperialism," intercepted several tons of arms-Czech submachine guns, ammunition, grenades-shipped from Cuba to isolated points along the Venezuelan coast. The Venezuelan government, which is not anxious to arouse its volatile populace, issued an official denial of the reports, but intelligence sources insist that the shipments have been going on since December, and a Venezuelan official lamented last week: "We have a long and open coastline. They can smuggle that stuff in virtually anywhere. We catch what...
Broader Horizons. Mongolia's Premier Yumzhagiin Tsedenbal has dexterously used his pivotal position to try to acquire the status of an independent nation. He sent a Mongolian trade mission to Czechoslovakia last month to buy Czech machinery and equipment. Another delegation in Tokyo concluded a deal swapping Japanese machinery and equipment for animal products. Mongolia has established diplomatic relations not only with all the nations of the Soviet bloc, but also with such neutrals as India. Nepal, Burma. Yugoslavia. Cambodia and Guinea, and is bidding actively for U.S. recognition and U.N. membership...
...including 500 Russians, 125 Red Chinese. Sweltering little Conakry, the capital, has taken on an East European look. The black traffic cops wear little flat-topped caps resembling those of the hated A.V.H. police in Hungary. At the airport, Guinean honor guards for visiting dignitaries sport Russian helmets and Czech machine pistols...
...hundreds of students, singing "God bless America, land that I love" in bad but valiant English, broke up a Communist rally with rotten eggs, mushy fruit, firecrackers and fists. In their public and private statements, government officials showed chill concern over the four-barreled (4,000 rounds per minute) Czech anti-aircraft guns, Soviet T-34 tanks, and heavy artillery so much in evidence at the Bay of Pigs...