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...Last week, returning from exile, Uncle Hector and his brother José Arismendi, made a last desperate bid to reéssert the bloody dictatorship. It took a triple play to defeat it-by Dominican President Joaquin Balaguer, helped by a 37-year-old Dominican air force general named Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria, and by the U.S. Navy, which coolly provided just the touch of old-fashioned "gunboat diplomacy" to enable the Dominicans themselves to end the Trujillo...
...Dominican soil. At the airbase near the inland Dominican city of Santiago de los Caballeros, Commanding General Rodriguez ordered the arrest of every Trujillo agent in the city whom the uncles were apt to count on for their bloodbath. His younger brother, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff Pedro Santiago Rodriguez Echaverria, persuaded 20 pilots at San Isidro, the main airbase in Ciudad Trujillo, to fly to Santiago...
...recent tour through the backlands of his mountainous country, Peru's Premier Pedro Beltran, 64, a descendant of the Spanish conquistadors, stopped off in the ancient Inca city of Cuzc0,11,200 ft. up in the Andes. A howling, Communist-led mob of Indian peasants, descendants of the defeated Incas, greeted him with a barrage of rocks and cries of "To the wall!" Few places in Latin America know a wider chasm between rich and poor, between the white aristocracy and the Indian masses, who, 400 years after the conquest, still live in misery. Though Beltran is an alert...
...Loves Pedro? Last week. Msgr. Illich greeted his second class at Chula Vista-35 men and women, eleven from Canada, including three married couples. All have some special skill that they plan to use in their minimum of three years' missionary work: nurse, teacher, agricultural expert, credit union or cooperative manager. "We presuppose these skills; we do not provide them." says Illich. "Those of good will alone need not apply." For skilled North Americans, coming from a highly technological society, have a special mission to Latin America, which is beginning to go through the same urbanization that...
...cited the case of a typical Pedro who leaves his village and comes to the city, where he loses his face and his name and suddenly becomes a man who does not fit. What' kind of help does Pedro want? He wants help from someone who shares his life, someone who loves...