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...South America, as a young Peruvian politician says, "it is very difficult to get to the palace by political means; the usual way is by money or guns." The continent has been much dominated by the military. Youth counts for little. When the late Juan Perón won the presidency of Argentina last fall he was 77, and his closest rival was 69. The very frequency of military coups makes party politics an unattractive career. The best of the young either go into private business or the law, or they join leftist guerrilla movements...
...capitals. A likely instance is the book's recounting of how in the mid-1960s the CIA helped Peru to quash an indigenous guerrilla movement. At the request of the government, headed by Fernando Belaunde Terry, the agency erected a miniature Fort Bragg in the heart of the Peruvian jungle and recruited a crack counterinsurgency team, which made short work of the guerrillas. Another passage reports that in 1969 the agency learned of a scheme by radicals to hijack a Brazilian airliner. The CIA kept the news to itself for fear that it would expose the agency...
...months ahead. Australia alone has just harvested 440 million bushels, more than double last year's crop. Adequate supplies of livestock feed also seem likely. Brazil's record soybean harvest is now being sold round the world and, after a disappearance of a year and a half, Peruvian anchovies, used as a livestock feed supplement, are again being caught. The rise in world farm production should ease demand pressure on this fall's U.S. harvest, which may set yet another record...
...America, in 1910 Casement again investigated the exploitation of rubber, and reported that Amazonian Indians were being as cruelly abused as if their masters had studied sadism in the Congo. This time, though, the villain was an English-owned company. Despite foot dragging back home and prevarication by the Peruvian government, it was forced to moderate its practices. In 1911 Casement was knighted for his effort, though he was now openly convinced that empire, left in the hands of commercial entrepreneurs, inevitably debased and destroyed the primitive communities whose land and labor they controlled...
According to the usually reliable weekly Peruvian Times, Cerro will probably collect $65 or $70 million against its claims of $145 million. In addition, W.R. Grace & Co. is expected to get $35 million of the $65 million that it says its soon-to-be-nationalized paper and chemical plants are worth. Six companies that own fish-meal plants, among them Heinz and General Mills, are likely to divide a $24 million settlement on their total claim of $35 to $40 million. In all, Peru reportedly will pay U.S. companies some $130 million on claims of twice that amount, which amounts...