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Last week a U.S. embassy official added up the results and made a wry face. "We don't have a damn thing to show for it," he said. "We're wasting money." Up in the clouds of La Paz (alt. 11,900 ft.), inside the drab, grey palace where he is guarded constantly by a manned machine gun, Hernan Siles Zuazo. 44, Bolivia's President, admitted: "The situation is critical and explosive...
...orchestra suffered its share of mishaps, beginning when its trunks were rain-soaked in Panama (TIME, May 12). It hit Guayaquil, Ecuador at a time when the streets were noisome as a result of a six-week garbage strike. In La Paz some of the players got high-altitude sickness, and in Santiago they played in an open sports arena with 30 electric heaters strategically spotted about the stage. But in Lima, days after a crowd had tried to break up the Nixon tour, the orchestra got an ovation when it played The Star-Spangled Banner...
Biggest Beat. An ordeal less dangerous than stoning but more exhausting came at La Paz, Bolivia, where the 11,900-ft. altitude gave the newsmen soroche -high-altitude sickness. Forced to run through crowds to keep up with Nixon, most came down with splitting headaches and failing memories. Hardest hit was Associated Press Photographer Henry Griffin, 46, who had to take deep draughts from a heavy oxygen tank he toted on his back. Cracked Griffin: "Let's get off this hill -I want to die breathing...
...Paz, Bolivia...
Plentiful Food. Long queues, once the most characteristic street scene in La Paz, have disappeared. Instead of lining up for supplies of subsidized food and then rushing to sell them on the black market for a tenfold profit, Bolivians shop from plentiful stocks. The free price of bread and meat is about one-third the old black rate. Farm production will be up 59% by the end of the year. The boliviano has come down from its crazy peak of 13,000 to the dollar, and has been averaging...