Word: patching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bolivia's ten-year-old social revolution is the most complete in Latin America after Cuba's, Richard W. Patch told a Kirkland House seminar last night. He singled out extensive land reforms as the best evidence of the country's progress...
...Patch, an anthropologist who has spent most of the last 11 years in South America, praised U.S. aid to Bolivia, which has amounted to $200 million since 1952. He credited the funds with supporting the progressive regime and preventing chaos and territorial disintegration...
...Patch traced Bolivia's revolution to the country's war with Paraguay in 1935. During that conflict, he said, large numbers of Indians were drafted and exposed to nationalist propaganda in the army...
...hold no particular brief with the M.N.R. party or its personnel," Patch said, "but I think it is doing remarkably well." He called Bolivia the outstanding example of a country that has exceeded the goals established in the Alliance for Progress...
...worked plastic tubes through arm veins into both sides of her heart, injected a radiopaque dye and took X rays to get a clear picture of her narrowed aorta. Her operation differed only in technical details from Ro Anne's. Dr. Prevedel sewed in a similar Teflon patch, and Patricia went home nine days later...