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...WERNER ARON Quito, Ecuador...
...together form the Kemper group, one of the world's largest casualty and fire insurance groups, is a bluff, bustling, self-made businessman. He has long been interested in Pan American amity, helped found the Inter-American Council of Commerce and Production, has been decorated by Brazil and Ecuador. Kemper belongs to the conservative wing of the G.O.P., did yeoman work for Ike's campaign in the Midwest...
...Brazil's Senate voted final approval, 40 to 8, of the Bilateral Military Assistance pact. Brazil agreed to supply strategic materials to the U.S.; in return, the U.S. will provide Brazil with technical military assistance and training equipment. The pact, similar to others signed with Chile, Cuba, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic, had long been blocked and bitterly attacked by Communists and extreme nationalists as a slur on Brazil's "sovereignty." To preside over the joint Brazilian-U.S. military commission, President Vargas appointed Brigadier Eduardo Gomes, his 1950 election opponent...
...woman, and half a million dollars' worth of raw opium, heroin, morphine, cocaine and marijuana, most of it destined for the U.S. Some of the dope was foreign-made, apparently lifted from medical stocks sent by other countries as friendly help in 1949 when an earthquake hit Ecuador. But much of it came from the poppy fields which flourish under the snow-capped Andean volcanoes close to Quito. Impressed by White's raids, Minister of Government Camillo Ponce Enriquez last week promised to ask the next Congress for laws prohibiting poppy-growing. George White headed back toward...
...seedy individuals and received small packages in return for bills he peeled from a fat wad of U.S. $100s. At length, the seedy ones led him to houses where he paid big money ($5,000, all told) for big packages. Then, having learned the names and residences of Ecuador's busiest dope dealers, George White led the Quito cops in 48 hours of raids...