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...equipped men. A U.S. contractor is winding up construction of 140 miles of all-weather roads linking two critical border areas with the main national road system to give the police mobility. In the north, to the same end, the U.S. has built 44 short landing strips, serviced by Helio Courier and Porter STOL planes that can land on less than 200 ft. if need...
Wednesday's military take-over in Brazil was "purely and simply a return to Fascism," according to Helio Jaguaribe, visiting professor of Government from Rio de Janeiro...
...Helio Jaguaribe, visiting professor of Government, said that in Latin America "there are quite a lot of facts fit to print that don't appear in the New York Times"--primarily because not enough space is made available by the editors. In its analysis, as well as its spot news coverage, he said, the Times' editorial bias often causes it to accept at face value official assurances of progress...
...Force was testing a new aircraft-a snappy little twin-engined Helio Courier light plane-and naturally, there was only one pilot for the job. Grinning broadly,. Air, Force General René Barrientos, 46, the more equal of Bolivia's two co-Presidents, strapped himself into the pilot's seat and roared off into the blue. After buzzing over La Paz, Barrientos flitted for about 30 minutes around the jagged 21,325-ft. peak of nearby Mount Illimani, then pushed the shuddering plane to 21,425 ft., setting a new altitude mark for that type of aircraft...
...Helio Jaguaribe is an eclectic revolutionary--one of the "new breed" of Latin American intellectuals. In a land known for its militant theorists and dogmatic unarxists, he is a pragmatic and flexible practitioner. Born and educated in Brazil, he founded a steel mill in 1953, managed it for ten years, and then resigned when General Castelo Branco seized control of the government in early 1964; he found only a "minimum of compatibility" with the new regime...