Word: ecuador
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...Loved." For some of the ill feeling that emerged there could be no remedy. The U.S. had grown to a position of world power similar to ancient Rome or 19th century Britain. Historically, strength excites fear and dislike. "You cannot be a basic power and be loved," said Ecuador's U.S.-educated ex-President Galo Plaza, with whom Nixon talked at length in Quito...
...Richard Nixon's stoning by agitators in Peru (see THE HEMISPHERE), commented admiringly: "Dick's got a lot of guts." Later, Ike dictated a warm personal message, which Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter relayed by radiophone as Nixon's party flew from Peru to Ecuador...
...Paraguay and Bolivia. Lima's Foreign Ministry sent Nixon its regrets, and the San Marcos Student Federation condemned the attack as "barbaric." Nixon deplored the "violent and vocal minority that denied freedom of expression, without which no institution of learning deserves the word 'great.'" In Ecuador, where he went next, university students, traditionally anti-Peruvian, elaborately pointed out to Nixon that Ecuadorian manners are better. This week in Colombia, a crowd cheered him at the airport, but a Communist-led squad of students burned his picture outside his hotel...
Last year Ecuador's Congress abolished the colony, but 61 convicts were left...
...wild-eyed escapees broke into the Herveys' cabin was a semblance of order restored. A young convict called a ship's meeting, delivered a ringing oration pledging that he and his comrades would mend their ways if their escape succeeded. He got his fellow convicts to sing Ecuador's national anthem, then led cheers for Ecuador, the U.S. and liberty...