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Twice last week the big U.S. Air Force hospital plane thundered north from La Paz to the Canal Zone, each time carrying strictly quarantined, desperately ill patients plucked from the hinterlands of Bolivia for transfer to the modern facilities of Gorgas Hospital. First to land were Wisconsin-born Dr. Ronald MacKenzie, 38, and Panamanian Technician Angel Muñoz, 42. At Gorgas, the fearful diagnosis made in the field was confirmed: both were victims of a newly discovered and deadly disease, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever. By midweek, the C-130 with its doctor-nurse team had made another trip, carrying...
...Castro rushed a 27-man delegation to pick up the pieces. But the Peruvians collected the evidence first, including documents reportedly detailing guerrilla activities in Brazil. Last week a Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano DC-6B crashed in the Andes on a flight from Arica. Chile, to La Paz, Bolivia...
Aboard were two Cuban diplomatic couriers on their roundabout way to La Paz via Mexico and Chile. Investigators found a batch of Cuban documents and an auto matic pistol with silencer. Another interesting discovery: both Cubans appeared to have been in the cockpit of the plane, which was 35 miles off course and 9,000 ft. too low when it crashed...
Many more Bolivian parents would do the same if they could afford it. In the past two years, enrollment at San Andres University in the Bolivian capital of La Paz has jumped from 2,700 to 6,400. The government, which fears San Andres as a hotbed of opposition, gives the school little money, and last year actually refused a United Nations grant. In Bolivia, the university presidents and deans are elected by councils divided fifty-fifty between students and professors. Communists have grabbed control of three universities outside La Paz and are reaching for the rest...
Indians explained that no planes were flying because of the Chinese border war; eventually they provided second-class train tickets for the two-day trip. At that, Ambassador Paz angrily complained to the Indian protocol office, which put the team on a flight to Madras-just in time for the monsoon rains. "When we finally got there,'' said Coach Contreras, "the boys were afraid to eat the food, and were losing weight...