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Good neighborliness in the Americas has been badly strained of late. The U.S.'s recent denial of a visa to Carlos Fuentes--a leading Mexican novelist with leftist leanings--which will prevent him from participating in a U.S. television debate with Richard Goodwin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, will almost certainly increase Latin America's mistrust of the U.S.'s motives. Mexico, battling to maintain neutrality between the giant on the north and a little Cuba feeling new Marxist-Leninist oats, is particularly sensitive to American slights...
...Both Goodwin and Senor Fuentes had agreed to debate on the prospects of the Alliance for Progress, and the NBC program had received advance publicity in Latin America. When the U.S. embassy in Mexico subsequently indicated its belief that Fuentes was a Communist, the State Department denied his visa under the provisions of the Walter-McCarran Immigration Act. Although the State Department can choose to seek special waiver of such restrictions, in this case it did not. "Not in the national interest," said the Department. But Fuentes had had no trouble gaining admittance to the U.S. last October; then...
Prodders In. Three weeks ago. President Kennedy called in his Latin America advisers, asked how the Alianza was faring, and bristled when he was told that it was barely airborne. Kennedy ordered his No. 1 Latin America troubleshooter, Richard Goodwin, 30. who wrote last year's presidential Alianza speech, but otherwise had no previous familiarity with Latin America, to be trail boss for the New Frontiersmen in speeding the program. Last week the President fired Goodwin's nominal boss. Robert Woodward, a genial career diplomat who was just too slow for Kennedy. In his place as Assistant Secretary...
Californians had been looking forward to a real show in this year's Republican gubernatorial primary campaign between Richard Nixon and former Governor Goodwin J. Knight, a vigorous stump speaker and a vociferous Nixon hater. Last week the show ended almost before it began: Goodie Knight, 65, bedded down since November with infectious hepatitis, announced that he would reluctantly give up his 1962 political plans, and follow his doctor's advice...
...Goodwin is now Assistant Secretary of State for InterAmerican Affairs, and this sort of switch is analyzed as reflecting the President's desire to clarify the lines of responsibility in foreign policy, putting all the originators under Rusk and judgers under the White House, at the same time as he pulls the two groups closer together...