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...ECUADOR is under military rule, and likely to stay that way for a while. "Power," says Rear Admiral Ramon Castro Jijón, chief of the junta, "does not lure us. Only the circumstances retain us." In the 19 months since the military toppled erratic, hard-drinking Carlos Julio Arosemena, Ecuador's progress-minded soldiers have ground out hundreds of decrees organizing a civil service, setting up a land reform, revising the tax system. New industry (paint, textiles, detergents) is flowing into Quito and Guayaquil. In the highlands, where half of Ecuador's 4,700,000 people...
...tour will last ten weeks, with concerts planned in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela...
...festive day in Ecuador last September when Charles de Gaulle swooped into Quito to begin a 25-hour state visit, the third stop on his ten-nation tour of Latin America. Enthusiastic crowds thronged the roads, jammed the balconies, and clambered on rooftops to shower the French leader with confetti and cries of "Viva De Gaulle...
When De Gaulle departed, things were definitely looking up for France's grand design-at least in Ecuador. Then came trouble. Though De Gaulle had given each of the four junta members the Grand Officer, he had bestowed the much more exclusive "Grand-Croix of the Legion of Honor" on the heads of state in all the other countries he visited...
When the Ecuadorians demanded how come, the French Foreign Office firmly explained that there was no intention to insult Ecuador, but there could only be one Grand-Croix given per country. If one country got four, the others with only one might feel slighted...