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...rattled over its freshly concreted streets, stony-faced Indian women raced about on sleek Honda motorbikes, and stores were stocked with everything from American canned tomatoes to cold German beer. On down the road at Tarapoto, the local airport now handles more freight than any other in Peru except Lima. Along with Ford and Chevrolet agencies, Tarapoto has also sprouted no-parking signs and one-way streets...
Even Babies. The last time Dick Nix on ventured into Latin America, as Vice President in the spring of 1958, mobs of Communist-led students rained stones and spittle on him in Lima and Caracas, screaming "Death to Nixon!" Last week, as a private citizen returning to the relatively more stable continent, he was politely, even warmly greeted. "I still don't believe it," said one Peruvian, as he watched Nixon being hoisted onto the shoulders of enthusiastic villagers near Lima. After dandling a few babies in the village and laying a brick for a new school, Nixon returned...
...contrast, remained fairly quiet-though at least 250 Castroite terrorists still roam the country's interior. Their attacks are, however, a far cry from the kidnapings and bomb-throwings that nearly panicked the country last year. One reason: the guerrillas have lacked a leader since Luis Turcios Lima died at 24 in an auto accident last October. New President Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro has combined an army drive to hunt down guerrillas with a civic-action program that aims to lure peasants from the rebel cause by making life a little less unpleasant in the harsh backlands...
...Potential stifling of competition-as in the ITT-ABC case-is one. Another is reciprocity. One circumstantial example of reciprocity currently cited by Government lawyers involves Armour & Co., which as a meat packer is a major customer for railroad shipping space. Armour, in a conglomerate merger, bought out Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton, a manufacturer of railroad equipment. And now, to the disapproval of the government and the outrage of competitors, B-L-H has been getting 90% of new hotbox orders...
...noted, "where I came down the rapids in a raft." Over there was Tingo Maria, a new agrarian-reform project where 25,000 settlers will soon dwell. Off in the distance in the fertile Huallaga River Valley was Tarapoto, which now boasts the biggest cargo airport in Peru, after Lima...