Word: peru
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Clearly having the time of their lives last week were Bolivia's President René Barrientos and Peru's President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Barrientos and Belaúnde were on a three-day inspection of the Peruvian link of Belaúnde's proposed marginal road, a 4,300-mile highway that will open up thousands of acres of isolated Andes back country, and follow the mountains from Venezuela down through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, linking up with highway systems in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil...
...other things to discuss as well. Landlocked Bolivia is bickering with neighboring Chile, and therefore wants a new route to the Pacific, which Peru could provide. In turn, Peru's military, miffed about a call for Latin American disarmament by the Presidents of Chile and Colombia, wants closer ties with Bolivia's ex-Air Force General Barrientos, who is friendly with the Presidents of Argentina and Brazil-both of whom are also ex-generals...
...ugly kid" until he joined the Seabees and a 200-lb. counterweight fell on him, crushing his face, after which Navy plastic surgeons made him handsome enough to become an actor; of drowning while filming a jungle movie; on the Huallaga River in the remote Tingo Maria area of Peru...
Three year no immediate plans to reschedule the nine week tour which would have taken the orchestra to Venezuala, Columbia, Peru, Equador, and Chile...
Although political turmoil may be the spice of life at South American universities, it is far from being their most serious problem. Judged solely by academic considerations, the quality of the education they offer is shockingly low. Dr. Luis Alberto Sanchez, rector of the University of San Marcos in Peru, goes so far as to say that some of his country's 22 universities are in danger of becoming "intellectual slums...