Word: ecuador
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...Saturday evening last November, David W. Norton '66 was running barefoot through the jungles of Ecuador searching desperately for help. He had just escaped from a mob of machete-wielding natives who had attacked his camp and back in the tent, Raymond A. Paynter and his wife, Harvard ornithologists, were lying unconscious--badly cut and left for dead by the drunken Ecuadorans...
...three months next summer, they will join anthropological field expeditions in Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and Ecuador. Together with students from the three other schools, they will participate in rural village life and carry out supervised research...
Willene A. Jones '68 of Wolbach Hall and New York, and C. Bruce Tutton '67 of Leverett House and Seattle, Wash., will join the University of Illinois field team in Ecuador. Paul H. Reiss '68 of Winthrop House and Attleboro, and Polly M. Quick of 103 Walker and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will go to Brazil as part of the Columbia field team...
...linchpin of American diplomacy in this hemisphere, as well as the Organization of American States. Merely by pressing for the creation of the force, the U.S. will create serious dissension. Four Latin American nations--Chile, Mexico, Columbia and Uruguay--have soundly denounced the proposal. Five others -- Peru, Venczucla, Argentina, Ecuador and Costa Rica are -- known to be opposed. "This idea of collective action in the internal affairs of states," Gabriel Valdez of Chile told the ministers, "reflects a negative defensive attitude capable of destroying historically the great effort of organizing a new world in the Americas...
James M. Jacobs, president of J. August Co. in Harvard Square, has been making daily ham-radio contacts to Ecuador since the machete attack in the jungle near Cuenca, November 6. Jacobs has arranged conversations for the three ornithologists with their families...