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...techniques and encouraged right wing terrorist bombings of left-wing politicians' homes, party headquarters, and the embassies of communist countries. CIA agents also bombed Catholic churches and Conservative political part headquarters, and than blamed the bombings on "communist terrorists."' Using secret printing presses, forgeries and paid agents in the Ecuadorian press, the CIA spread constant anti-communist and anti-Cuban propaganda to the Ecuadorean public...
...been elected five times since 1934, and has been ousted from power four times (he finished one term of office in the mid-1950s). Recently he called for free elections next June that would bring an end to his two-year dictatorship. But one night last week, the Ecuadorian army quietly deposed Velasco and sent him into exile, replacing him with a junta headed by General Guillermo Rodríguez Lara...
Last week two U.S. tunaboats, the Western King and the Anne Maria, the first captured by Ecuadorian patrol boats this year, were forced to pay a total of $151,510 in fines. With a 50-boat flotilla headed down from San Diego and the prospect of yet another showdown, the State Department last week sent a diplomatic flotilla of its own, headed by Charles Meyer, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, to Quito to try to reach some kind of settlement...
Washington has refused to let American fishermen buy Ecuadorian licenses (as Japanese fishermen do, for example) on the grounds that it would tacitly acknowledge the legitimacy of the 200-mile claim. At the same time, the U.S. Treasury has picked up the tab for the fines. Every year, however, the ante has been going up: last year 51 U.S. boats were captured, and the fines amounted to $2.5 million...
...retaliation, the Administration has cut off military sales and credits to Ecuador. That action led Ecuador to protest to the Organization of American States that the U.S. was employing illegal sanctions. In recent weeks, the San Diego based American Tunaboat Association, which does $20 million worth of fishing in Ecuadorian waters, has been badgering the White House in San Clemente and Washington to do something to protect American fishermen. At week's end, Meyer and President José Velasco Ibarra still had not reached an agreement, but the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry said the talks would continue...