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...Washington, Food for Peace officials have coined a name for the project-Alianza para los Niños, meaning Alliance for Children. The food is credited with helping to double Peru's rural school attendance since the program began; school absenteeism in Bolivia has dropped from 38% to 2%, and students now make sure to be on time since latecomers go to the end of the lunch line. Each day in Mexico, more than 1,000,000 schoolchildren receive the donated food. "The lunch is the only reason a lot of parents send their children to school," says Djalma...
...chest X ray indicated recent changes in the lungs-but again, nothing definite. This and other hints suggested that the anemia might be complicated by a tuberculous infection. So the doctors at once prescribed vigorous treatment with the most potent combination of anti-tuberculosis drugs: streptomycin, PAS (para-aminosalycylic acid) and isoniazid...
...Royal, Trinidadians had a sort of abandoned-by-Britain feeling. Cuba's Castro and Soviet Premier Khrushchev sent well-wishers. The U.S. substituted AID Director Fowler Hamilton for busy Arthur Goldberg, hoping to interest Trinidad in joining the Organization of American States and so becoming eligible for Alianza para el Progreso assistance. Already receiving $1,100,000 a year from AID, Premier Williams had no hesitation in pronouncing Trinidad "unequivocally west of the Iron Curtain...
Moscoso's candid memo amounted to official recognition of a disturbing fact. Seventeen months after President Kennedy's stirring speech announcing the Alianza para el Progrcso, and a year after it was solemnly formalized by 20 hemisphere nations at Punta del Este, the program is in trouble. Latin Americans complain that the promised aid flows slowly. U.S. planners are discouraged by the manana attitude of many Latin American governments on the reciprocal social and economic reforms needed to make the U.S. aid dollars effective. Everyone realizes that there has been too much talk about what the Alliance...
Resistant Strains. One early fear about isoniazid has been justified: from 3% to 6% of new TB cases are caused by isoniazid-resistant bacilli. But the multiplication of these resistant strains can usually be checked by giving isoniazid with a second drug (streptomycin, para-aminosalicylic acid or cycloserine), and occasionally switching the combination...