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...Formosa that all the printers could do was supply enough books for Formosa's 30,000 college students and send a trickle of texts throughout Southeast Asia. But then Formosan printers began to buy efficient German offset presses and modern bookbinding equipment, partly with the help of U.S. ICA loans. With modern machines, printers' wages of only $12 a month, and cheap paper, the Formosan pirates went into mass production, soon were offering a U.S. book within three months of its publication...
...Port-au-Prince and hit the dirt in platoon combat formation. "That looked like hell," grumped Heinl, "but when we can't find any mistakes, the time will have come for us to leave." In the sprawling headquarters of the International Cooperation Administration in downtown Port-au-Prince, ICA Director for Latin America Rollin Atwood wound up a rigid, five-day inspection and said: "From a year ago, Haiti has made tremendous progress...
Responding, the U.S. nearly doubled the size of its ICA staff in Haiti to 66 technicians, including an art professor from the University of California, a traffic expert sent to study Port-au-Prince's breakneck driving habits, a platoon of agronomists to start Operation Poté Colé (Pull Together), which is designed to hike farm productivity in once-fertile northern Haiti. Taking up a desk just down the hall from Finance Minister Andre Theard, ICA's Nolle Smith, 70, a Negro economist from Wyoming, has helped cut petty corruption and inefficiency, is now sitting...
...Vice President and now Agriculture Minister. Curmudgeon Marroquin Rojas, terrible-tempered owner-editor-publisher of the daily La Hora, holds nothing sacred. He has attacked his own boss, President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes ("General, watch yourself"), and the Roman Catholic Church ("greedy"). Recently, he took a pitchfork to the ICA. He complained that in ICA projects, "gringos run the show," snapped that the ICA Forestry School is "a useless luxury," called U.S. officials "impertinent...
...disgruntled U.S. embassy finally sent a note to the Guatemalan government: "Did the Minister of Agriculture speak for his government?" No, replied the government, but it did nothing about Marroquin Rojas' attacks. Last week the U.S. did. The ICA pulled out of the jointly supported U.S.-Guatemalan Agriculture Service, ended its contract with the Agriculture Department (but did sign a new, smaller cooperation contract with the agrarian institute, a government corporation not under Marroquin Rojas). Under the renegotiated arrangement, the 22 U.S. experts will be trimmed to eight, and the U.S. contribution to Guatemala's farm improvement will...