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...reports of unusual Soviet activity, U.S. intelligence stepped up aerial surveillance of Cuba in midsummer (TIME, July 27). Among other indicators was the fact that the huge Soviet AN-22 transports, used to fly earthquake relief supplies to Peru, were leaving Moscow with perhaps 65 passengers and arriving in Lima with only a dozen or so. The missing passengers, it is now assumed, were engineers who got off in Havana and went straight to Cienfuegos. The latest U-2 photos of the port show construction in progress of what are almost certainly bunkers for storing submarine-borne nuclear weapons...
...Lima, Peru...
Talking Boards. Now a distinguished German ethnographer has offered a fresh solution to the puzzle. The Incas, Dr. Thomas S. Barthel told the 39th International Congress of Americanists in Lima last week, did indeed have a primitive script. It has remained available, though unrecognized, through the centuries. Further, said the Tübingen University professor, he has translated about 25 of the symbols...
...killing of Lima, who was a Cape Verdean, contributed to a growing sense of solidarity between Portugese and American blacks. During the recent disturbances, many in the streets have been Cape Verdeans...
...Lima's death was not the only basis on which the protesters were able to unite. The demands of the protests, centered on more jobs and construction of low-income housing, have far-reaching appeal in both communities...