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Progressive Conservative. Ecuador's new President is a well-groomed, keen-minded lawyer who at 33 headed his nation's delegation to the United Nations founding conference at San Francisco. Later he served as Public Works Minister, Senator, Interior Minister...
Economic troubles aside, Ecuadorians can take pride in their nation's recent history. The country was long notorious for political inflammability, but last week Ponce became the third President in a row to be constitutionally inaugurated. And for a Conservative to be able to take office in Ecuador with only a 29% mandate was itself a milestone of political progress and maturity...
...state visit by Argentina's Pedro Aramburu, but engine trouble delayed them in Peru, and bad weather stalled them in Santiago, Chile. Chile's Carlos Ibanez, however, was not on hand to greet them; on his way home the Chilean President had 1) run across Ecuador's Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra at the Guayaquil airport and dawdled over a glass of champagne, and 2) landed at Lima for a chat with ailing Manuel Odria, Peru's outgoing President...
...noted traveler also made the rounds. After Panama, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles dropped in on Colombia's Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. The implied honor to Rojas, who was the Panama conference's No. 1 absentee, angered Colombians who oppose the self-made strongman. Moving to Ecuador, Dulles restored the balance by pointedly praising Ecuador's "firm support of constitutional processes." Then the Secretary of State flew off to the inauguration of Peru's Manuel Prado (see below...
Quito. Scheduled for reassignment to Ecuador, where the post is open: Christian Magelssen Ravndal, 57, born in Syria, son of a U.S. diplomat, in the Foreign Service since 1920, with duty in Germany, Canada, Sweden, Latin America. Big, rumpled Chris Ravndal, whose great forte is public relations-he likes to get out into the back country and put across the U.S. point of view-served his first ambassadorial assignment in Uruguay, is an authority on Latin American affairs. All the shifts left the State Department abuzz at week's end with one big unanswered question: Who replaces Allen...