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...year; now he wants $75 million for the next three years. Matched by half that sum from Central American countries, the stepped-up appropriation would be enough, Ike thought, to close the gaps in the road (notably a 134-mile stretch in southeastern Costa Rica-TIME, March 14) and pave the dirt and gravel sections...
...administered plebiscite on Formosa, by which the seven million natives would be allowed to determine their own ruler for the first time since Japanese occupation. Although a plebiscite might require much time and patience to execute, it appears to be a necessary step if recognition is to pave the way for reciprocal relations with the Communist government...
...Guatemala has the most frustrating gap. Mexico's fine paved stretch of the highway reaches the border at a different point from where Guatemala's road net touches the Mexican border. At present a 164-mile, $35 railway-flatcar haul bridges the gap. With $1,425,000 granted last October by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, construction is getting started to connect the loose ends. But Nixon, who wants to help anti-Communist President Carlos Castillo Armas with public works, backs a speedup (with $20 million to $30 million in U.S. aid) that will quickly close...
...committee of prominent alumni is now soliciting funds. Meanwhile, however, a generation of students is going through the College with almost no official instruction in dramatic arts. As yesterday's announcement indicates, the University can take immediate steps to strengthen College drama provisionally and at the same time to pave the way for the new theatre...
...Mile Pipeline. To pave the way for the deal with Atlas, Perón had to walk a tightwire between his own country's rampant nationalism and the reluctance of foreign companies to come in without safeguards for their investments. He revised the investment law so that it put no limit on the percentage of profits that can be taken out of the country by petroleum investors. To appease his countrymen, Perón's deal with Atlas-Dresser provides that the U.S. companies explore and produce crude oil, after which Argentina will take over the refining...