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What were those Seabees doing last week bricking over windows in the U.S. embassy in Lima? Repairing earthquake damage was the official reply. Earthquakes? Lima has not suffered a serious shake in 30 months. Actually, the Seabees were preparing for a possible upheaval of a far different sort. In the past few months, relations between the U.S. and Peru have been disintegrating so rapidly that American diplomats fear that the embassy may become a target for mob violence...
Presidential Emissary. Last month, as the deadline drew near, President Nixon sent to Lima a personal emissary, Wall Street Lawyer John N. Irwin, who previously helped negotiate new Panama Canal treaties. At week's end, after a number of fruitless sessions with the junta, Irwin flew back to the U.S. for consultations before returning to Lima. "I am not optimistic," he said in Washington, "but I refuse to be pessimistic until we have completed our conversations...
...properties is just now receiving close attention. The new Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Charles Meyer, a former Sears, Roebuck vice president in charge of hemisphere operations, was selected only this month. A special presidential envoy, New York Lawyer John Irwin II, was not sent to Lima until last week. Harry Flemming, head of the White House recruiting operation, promises a complete new team...
Returning to Santiago from a visit to neighboring Peru, Chilean Foreign Minister Gabriel Valdés hastily summoned U.S. Ambassador Edward Korry. In Lima, Valdés had held two long talks with Juan Velasco Alvarado, leader of the military junta that seized power last fall. Subject: the approaching showdown between Peru and the U.S., which neither nation really wants. Soon after his junta overthrew President Fernando Belaunde Terry in October, Velasco expropriated the U.S.-owned International Petroleum Co. As a result, the U.S., under a congressionally imposed retaliation called the Hickenlooper Amendment (TIME, Feb. 14), would have no choice...
...Santiago, contained four face-saving provisos for the sovereignty-conscious Peruvian junta. Velasco would receive a U.S. emissary, but that representative must be 1) a high-level personage, 2) President Nixon's special representative, 3) armed with discretionary powers to negotiate broadly, and 4) willing to come to Lima. The Administration has been increasingly concerned over its disintegrating hemispheric relations; at his press conference two weeks ago, President Nixon ruefully admitted that imposing the Hickenlooper Amendment would have an anti-American domino effect all over South America. Therefore the President speedily agreed to all four considerations. Off to Lima...