Word: nde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly having the time of their lives last week were Bolivia's President René Barrientos and Peru's President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Barrientos and Belaúnde were on a three-day inspection of the Peruvian link of Belaúnde's proposed marginal road, a 4,300-mile highway that will open up thousands of acres of isolated Andes back country, and follow the mountains from Venezuela down through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, linking up with highway systems in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil...
Bearhugs & Namesakes. Meeting in the small Peruvian border town of Puerto Patria, Barrientos and Belaúnde greeted each other with bear-hug abrazos, and made a few speeches. The party of 55 traveled on by barge, truck, foot and air, making up the trip as they went. Aboard his DC-6, Belaúnde manned the public-address system, describing the dense, steaming jungle below and every twist and turn of the marginal road. "That's the Tambo River," Belaúnde noted, "where I came down the rapids in a raft." Over there was Tingo Maria...
...tiny village of Shanao, Belaúnde asked the name of a new bridge that was going up. "The Rio Mayo," answered a local official. "No," Belaúnde corrected. "Henceforth, this will be known as the Bolivia Bridge, in honor of the great Bolivian President." Not to be outdone, Barrientos announced that he was naming a small town on the Bolivian stretch of the highway "Fernando Belaúnde Terry...
...with Frei, was joined by Venezuela's President Raúl Leoni, Ecuador's former President Galo Plaza Lasso, who substituted for Ecuador's Interim President Clemente Yerovi Indaburu, and Peru's former Premier Fernando Schwalb, who was filling in for President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Among the balls, banquets and other ceremonial gatherings, the five met to discuss mutual economic and industrial development and the problems of the ailing Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA). A LAFTA ministerial meeting is scheduled for Montevideo next December, and the five nations gathered in Bogot...
Death Confirmed. Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, 54, third son of the 13th Duke of Hamilton, a World War II R.A.F. group captain credited with discovering the German V-2 base at Peenemünde who later moved to the U.S. to run an aircraft supply business, then disappeared in Africa in July 1964, while delivering a twin-engined Beechcraft to the Congo; when a native came across the wreckage 9,000 ft. up Cameroon Mountain, just south of Nigeria, and the British Foreign Office reported identifying the body...