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...tiny South American republic of Ecuador, Vicente Levi Castillo is the hero of the wealthy taxpayers. A political pal of Ecuadorian President Otto Arosemena, Levi Castillo, 35, is a former Deputy in the Constituent Assembly, which has just completed a new constitution for Ecuador. It was in the process of losing his status as Deputy that he was elevated to the position of hero. Today his popular title is "the Dynamite Man of Ecuador...
Levi Castillo's troubles and his brief triumph began with the Ecuadorian equivalent of the Tonight show, a radio program that reported all the sessions of the Assembly in the Congress building high on a hill overlooking the capital city of Quito. One recent evening the program became particularly diverting when shrewd parliamentary maneuvering by one of the Deputies forced a clerk to start broadcasting the names of all the delinquent taxpayers in Ecuador. The poor Indians and mestizos of the countryside, listening on their transistor radios, were delighted at the embarrassment of so many rich merchants. President Arosemena...
...deposed Dynamite Man was already a hero. And Ecuadorian politics being what they are, he confidently expects to be sent to Congress in the next election in June 1968. After all, he says, he never should have been thrown out of the Assembly. "That wasn't dynamite on the desk," he insists. "It was just two tubes of sand, and I have a police affidavit to prove...
...ECUADOR Volunteers will work under the administration of Heifer Projects, Inc. With Ecuadorian counterparts, they will work with campesinos (rural peasants) in lower-level agriculture and community development programs. Veterinarians will teach at three universities; foresters will work on the national forestry development plan; and engineers will work in rural irrigation and construction projects...
...each day on the New York waterfront, and seamen have already suffered a $5.5 million wage loss. More than 15,000 travelers have had to change their plans because of canceled sailings. At least $200 million in cargo has been delayed, some of it fatally: $400,000 worth of Ecuadorian bananas have rotted in holds. A leather importer from Philadelphia faces bankruptcy because he has been unable to meet his commitments to local shoe manufacturers, and some Manhattan antique stores fear that the delicate finish of such antiques as Queen Anne tables and Chippendale chairs will be spoiled...