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...secretary-general to replace Uruguay's retiring Jose A. Mora. What seemed like a simple task dragged on through three months of petty politicking, bickering and name-calling. Last week, the OAS finally settled on the man that it should have chosen in the first place: Ecuador's Galo Plaza Lasso, 62, one of Latin America's most skilled and experienced diplomats...
...Peace Corps in Chile in January, 1965. There is little point to an extensive discussion of our reasons for resigning as Volunteers, since our action came in response to a situation in Chile strikingly similar to the one Paul Cowan has already described in his article as existing in Ecuador. Suffice it to say, in response to Russell Schwartz's allegation that "Paul Cowan [and by implication all those who resigned] resigned when his world went bad," that one does not resign when the world goes bad; one resigns when the Peace Corps Administration in one's country of assignment...
...country's export earnings. For the two companies, which decline to estimate the total value of the Putumayo find, the project may initiate a far-ranging cooperative exploratory effort. Texaco and Gulf have already staked a claim on 5,000,000 acres in neighboring Ecuador, where last spring they discovered a rich oil field. Geologists, moreover, venture that the Colombia-Ecuador finds are only the beginning, and that much more oil will be found along the eastern slopes of the Andes...
...Ecuador Volunteers miss the point when they contend that the presence of Peace Corps staff arouses local resentment. Resentment is there, all right, but its target is not so much the staff as the Volunteers. No matter who supervised them, the presence of large numbers of Americans as teachers, CD workers, etc. would serve to remind Latins--and Africans and Asians--that they still lack enough trained people of their own for certain jobs...
...Ecuador Volunteers cite the view that Peace Corps policy is motivated by the U.S. "world wide struggle against communism, not by a genuine desire to help poor nations" but they offer no evidence for the charge. This indictment amounts to a new claim of guilt by association. For all its faults the Peace Corps is the best thing that this nation is doing abroad, and to tar it with the brush of "arrogance" and "colonialism" merely because it is an agency of the U.S. government strikes me as both unsophisticated and dishonest. Efrem Sigel '64 Associate Managing Editor, 1964; Peace...