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...California border into the long, desertlike Mexican peninsula called Baja California. Below Tijuana, where the Mexican fleshpots generally attract only servicemen, there is scarcely anything to see save for a scattering of native villages and trails. And yet, along the southernmost 100 miles of Baja, between La Paz and Cabo San Lucas (see map), is the best game-fishing ground in the hemisphere-perhaps, as some fishermen claim, in the whole world...
...disorganizing power back in their home territories. In Venezuela, pro-Castro violence left 32 dead, and for a time made things warm for the government of militantly anti-Castro President Rómulo Betancourt. Riots or demonstrations erupted in Brazil. Peru, Chile. Mexico and El Salvador. In La Paz. Bolivia, 33 were injured, one fatally. Said a Bolivian delegate: "If I vote for sanctions, I had better not return to La Paz, or I'll be hung from a lamppost on arrival...
...Paz, Bolivia, Castro agents working out of the Cuban embassy hatched a plot with local Communists to overturn the government of Reformer-President Victor Paz Estenssoro with a "hunger march" on the capital by striking leftist tin miners. Forewarned, the Bolivian government declared a state of siege, rounded up the chief conspirators and called out a well-armed militia of nonstriking workers to block all roads into the capital. The march fizzled...
...people and its evident dislike of the M.N.R. regime is borne in mind. I counseled that these dollars, instead of being placed at the disposal of the government, be deposited in a special account of the Ministry of Education, and under the supervision of Point Four officials in La Paz, to pay the salaries of the poor Bolivian teachers that presently earn the equivalent of $20 per month and, with the remainder, to build schools, both urban and rural. Thus two positive ends would have been attained: an honest and efficient administration of these resources and a sense of gratitude...
...shoving, mostly against the U.S. So, right on schedule, it came to pass. In Moscow, well-organized throngs marched on the U.S. embassy to toss inkpots and rocks; they were easily kept from getting really riotous by a phalanx of Soviet militiamen. In Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, La Paz, Caracas, Mexico City and Buenos Aires, unruly mobs of students and workers milled in the streets and battled with police and one another. In Tokyo, left-wing students and Communists stormed around the U.S. embassy. In Egypt, Nasser-organized squads of yelling youths tried to storm the U.S. mission...