Word: peru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says, Latin Americans who cry Communism to resist change. But the U.S. has found plenty of anti-Communists to back-anti-Communists who are also reformers. It wholeheartedly supports Chile's President Eduardo Frei, who beat a Marxist to win office. It has committed $119 million to help Peru's Fernando Belaúnde Terry wage a social revolution that will aid millions of backlands Indians...
...Cattle rustlers, that's all," snorted Peru's President Fernando Belaúnde Terry when the first reports of Communist guerrilla activity filtered down from the country's Andean highlands last June. The remark now haunts Belaúnde. Last week, in the severest crisis of his 26-month administration, Belaúnde chose to accept the resignation of his entire Cabinet rather than allow it to appear before Congress to answer criticism about the government's laggardly response to the guerrilla threat...
Established in late 1963, the gunboat fleet is another maneuver of President Fernando Belaunde Terry, 52, in his search for weapons to fight Peru's own version of the war on poverty and disease. So far this year, Belaunde's Amazon fleet has called at 140 jungle settlements, inoculated 16,216 people against smallpox and yellow fever, treated 2,153 for dental problems and another 3,657 for a host of tropical diseases. Among them are okara, a skin disorder that comes from a mosquito bite and permanently disfigures face and body with white and red spots...
...Belaunde plans to add two more gunboats armed with the most modern medical equipment, including surgery and X-ray facilities. "Then," says one doctor, "we will really be doing things for the people." And really doing things for Belaunde's government, which is facing sharp new pressures in Peru's Congress over the Castroite threat in the backlands and is convinced that one of the best weapons against subversion is a campaign of social action...
...chance to join the human race," he said, "there's no hope for democracy. Today we are not thinking of the Latin Americans in terms of throwing them another $2,000,000 just to get them out of our hair." This week Vaughn moves on to Bolivia and Peru, then returns to the U.S. When he gets home, maybe the phone will start ringing at midnight...