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What part of the world has the fastest growing population? Not India and not Communist China. The population explosion is strongest in tropical South America-a 5,300,000-sq.-mi. area encompassing Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and the three Guianas, British, Dutch and French (see map). According to the Population Reference Bureau, an independent, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., these nine countries are growing at an average rate of 3.2% each year, compared with about 2% for India and Red China. At cur rent rates, their 121 million population will double by 1986; in 100 years...
...cope with the smugglers, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador are strengthening their border patrols. Practically every nation is tightening customs regulations. Argentina has gone so far as to bar all imports of furs, Scotch, cigarettes, toys, nylons and sporting equipment. But since no one took the trouble to check the stocks at the time of prohibition, storekeepers have inexhaustible inventories left over-naturally-from before...
...Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Mann told the U.S. ambassadors that the Administration planned to jettison as ineffective the U.S. policy of withholding diplomatic recognition and economic aid from new military regimes that take power by force. In the past three years, six Latin American governments-Argentina, Peru, Guatemala, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and Honduras-have been overthrown by military coups. And in every case, temporary U.S. nonrecognition has proved more embarrassing to Washington than to the junta...
...sailor named Julio Luna Vera, 32, was brought into Ecuador's Clinica Guayaquil with a right hand so shattered by a grenade explosion that amputation was necessary. Dr. Roberto Gilbert Elizalde, 47, who had never done any transplant work, decided to try. He put a tourniquet on Luna's arm and cooled it with cracked ice. He had a donor: a 43-year-old laborer-also named Luna-who lay dying of internal hemorrhage in another Guayaquil hospital where his family gave permission for the transplant...
Military "civic action" is spreading. Colombian air force engineers are hacking out jungle highways; army troops are detailed to remote villages to build schools and clinics, dig wells and paint houses. Other armies-in Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela-have also established public-works beachheads in the boondocks. "The role of the military," says Lieut. Colonel Alvaro Baquero, Satena's general manager, "is not only to defend the nation, but also to help...