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...Laura Glynn of Hartford, Conn., and Elsie Monje of Guayaquil, Ecuador, who organize destitute peasants in Ecuador and, as a result, endure constant denunciations as "Communist agitators." Based in Quito, the nuns advise labor and peasant organizers and students. Just now they are obtaining medical aid for several hundred Andean Indians squatting on unused hilly farm land. More than 30 have been wounded by gunshots in repeated skirmishes with police and thugs hired by landowners, but local hospitals refuse to treat them...
DIED. Jaime RoldÓs Aguilera, 40, President of Ecuador and youngest elected head of state in South America; in a plane crash that also killed his wife Marta, 39, Defense Minister Marco Subia Martinez, 51, and six others; in the Andes Mountains. A Guayaquil lawyer, Roldos entered the 1978 presidential race as a stand-in populist candidate for his politically prominent uncle-by-marriage (who was ruled ineligible to run) and went on to win a runoff the following year by the largest margin in his nation's history, ending nine years of dictatorship...
...army was apparently afraid that the winner of the election-and the next President-would be the radical, Syrian-born former mayor of Guayaquil, Assad Bucaram. But the generals may also have been lured by the spoils of office. Ecuador may eventually become Latin America's second largest oil producer (after Venezuela). The Trans-Andean pipeline goes into operation next June. President Velasco had already received $11 million from Texaco-Gulf in advance royalties. He had also signed a secret decree giving the military half the total oil royalties. Now, for the time being at least, the army will...
...Guayaquil, Ecuador...
...GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR, June 24--An eight-man film team, including four Harvard graduate and undergraduate students, took the first pictures of an erupting volcano in the Galapagos Islands early this week...