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Response to the article (the quotation about "abolishing Bolivia" appeared only in the local Latin American edition) was swift and violent: La Paz got annoyed, students got riled up, President Hernan Siles Zuazo (in the drab, grey palace where he is guarded constantly by an unmanned machine gun) got worried, 10,000 copies of Time got burned, the American embassy got attacked. Summoned from Secretary Dulles' cloud chamber at Walter Reed Army Hospital, temporarisecretary Chris Herter, a genially proper Bostonian, expressed hope that "a magazine would not be permitted to disturb the traditionally good relations that have existed between...
...made a wry face. "We don't have a damn thing to show for it," he said. "We're wasting money." Up in the clouds of La Paz (alt. 11,900 ft.), inside the drab, grey palace where he is guarded constantly by a manned machine gun, Hernan Siles Zuazo. 44, Bolivia's President, admitted: "The situation is critical and explosive...
...three nations most plainly in need of the kind of help the new bank can offer are Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile. But Bolivia's President Hernan Siles Zuazo has been backing a stern anti-inflation program with everything from hunger strikes to threats to resign, and there are hopeful signs of recovery. Paraguay's President Alfredo Stroessner, reinaugurated last week, has stabilized the currency, balanced the budget and held the rise in cost of living to a low (for Paraguay) 1% per month. And Chile's President Carlos Ibanez has sacrificed his personal popularity to back tough...
...blow to South America than to any other region in the world. Of the 86 nations in the U.N.'s global cost-of-living index, Bolivia is in first place. Chile is second, Brazil and Argentina rank high. "A fire burning down our house," Bolivia's President Hernan Siles Zuazo calls inflation. "We will be lucky...
...power in 1952, set off a historic, all-embracing economic and political revolution. M.N.R. nationalized the major industry, tin mining, confiscating the properties of the powerful tin barons. It revamped land tenure, giving indentured farm hands plots of their own -"like Lincoln's freeing the slaves," says President Hernan Siles Zuazo...