Word: nde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That's about the only surprise in the new novel by Pierre Boulle (Bridge Over the River Kwai). A shallow attempt at fictionalizing the space age, it traces a handful of Axis rocket engineers from Peenemünde, where they "romantically" built Hitler's V-2s, into the diaspora of the postwar world, where they end up glumly competing with one another in the U.S.-Soviet space race. There is Stern, a faint carbon copy of Wernher von Braun who talks like a cross between Tom Swift and Astroboy. There is Nadia, his luscious White Russian assistant...
...Houses. This year's economic growth may be better still-if Belanúde can settle a squabble with International Petroleum Co., a Standard Oil of New Jersey affiliate that has been working the rich fields on the north coast since 1914. During the campaign, Belaúnde called loudly for the company's expropriation, and Congress later unanimously revoked I.P.C.'s oil rights. But Belaunde is smart enough to know that Peru will get neither the aid nor the continuing private investment it needs unless he makes a fair settlement soon. In private negotiations...
...national budget will allow, Belaúnde has made some progress. His government has already built thousands of classrooms, and 20,000 low-cost housing units are under construction. The oil controversy has held down the U.S. Government loans that he needs to implement his social schemes. Nearly two-thirds of the country's 11 million people live in the bleak Andean highlands; more than half are illiterate, and one-third of the 3,000,000 school-age children still have no schools...
Question of Priority. In his war against poverty, Belaúnde has set up cooperación popular, a self-help plan for rural Indian communities in which the government provides tools and technical advice and the Indians build roads and airstrips. But he has been able to make only a token start on his favorite project: a vast superhighway system across the Andes to open the fertile Amazon Valley to settlers...
Belaúnde's chief political rival, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 69, the fiery APRA patriarch who was edged out in the 1962 elections, dismisses cooperación popular as "an old Communist way of making people work-romantic but not practical." Many others -including U.S. Ambassador J. Wesley Jones-are impressed by Belaunde's vision. "Everything the President has suggested makes sense," says Jones. "The question is only where to put what on the scale of priority...