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...Church in Latin America is changing. While Rome still prohibits birth control, thereby encouraging the fecundity that is one of the continent's biggest obstacles to economic progress, many young priests quietly counsel contraception. In Chile, priests have increasingly drifted into poor neighborhoods to live and work. In Ecuador, they lead a movement to bring church property under land reform. In Bolivia, they have suggested that workers be granted a voice in their firms and a share in the profits. In Colombia, a priest was killed leading an anti-government guerrilla band. The growing middle class, too, has found...
...said Nelson Rockefeller as he disembarked at Ecuador's Mariscal Sucre Airport last week on the second of four fact-finding tours of Latin America for President Richard Nixon. He soon encountered hard realities. Leftist students were out in force to give Rocky the most hostile reception of his travels thus far. A helicopter hovered protectively over the gray Mercedes carrying the New York Governor as it inched through back streets to avoid the mobs. The students fought police with bricks and stones. Stores, banks and schools shut down, traffic was paralyzed, and the smell of tear gas wafted...
...heard and are likely to hear everywhere. The Latins want more U.S. aid without strings, assured markets and better prices for their exports to the U.S. They want more control over their own resources and over the policies and profits of large U.S. companies that operate in Latin America. Ecuador, in addition, had a specific request: that the U.S. respect its claim to 200 miles of territorial water offshore until Ecuadoreans develop the equipment and know-how to exploit their rich fishing areas themselves...
Perhaps the most hopeful news from Latin America last week had nothing to do with the U.S. visitors: the formation of a common market by the five Andean countries of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. The five agreed to work toward the elimination of internal tariffs within an eleven-year period and the erection of a common external tariff. This Andean common market represents an improvement over the largely ineffective Latin American Free Trade Association, formed in 1960 by ten Latin American countries. In several respects, the Andean experiment is similar to the nine-year-old Central American Common...
...director since 1963 and, with Balanchine, one of the world's two finest living ballet choreographers. "If Fred is in the English tradition," says Dame Margot Fonteyn, "that is because he is the one who made it." Like Balanchine, though, Ashton began in the Russian tradition. Born in Ecuador, the son of a British businessman, he began studying ballet at the age of 18. Two years later, he worked with the company of Marie Rambert, for whom he produced his first piece of choreography-a disastrous dance number in a review for which Author A. P. Herbert wrote...