Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME'S editors and correspondents have been logging Belaunde's progress for years. On recent trips to Peru, Senior Editor George Daniels and Writer Philip Osborne had long talks with the Peruvian President. When the editors then decided that Belaunde should be on the cover, the massive job of reporting and research fell to people who brought a high degree of expertise to the task: Bureau Chiefs Roger Stone (Rio), Gavin Scott (Buenos Aires), Mo Garcia (Caracas); Stringers Tomas Loayza (Lima) and Jorge Jurado (Quito); Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin; New York Researchers Berta Gold, Erika Kraemer and Priscilla...
...worked on the project, a particular point of satisfaction lay in telling the story of effort and progress in a part of the world that too often makes headlines only when there is sensational trouble...
...COLOMBIA was once regarded as a showcase of the Alliance for Progress. With massive infusions of U.S. aid ($230 million since 1961), and under the steady hand of former President Alberto Lleras Camargo, the country's Liberal and Conservative parties called a truce in their senseless civil war and pushed through an impressive series of reforms. Under the current President, Guillermo León Valencia, army civic action programs and anti-guerrilla campaigns have sharply reduced poverty-fed banditry in the backlands. That is Valencia's major success. During his 31 months in office, the cost of living...
...rule, and likely to stay that way for a while. "Power," says Rear Admiral Ramon Castro Jijón, chief of the junta, "does not lure us. Only the circumstances retain us." In the 19 months since the military toppled erratic, hard-drinking Carlos Julio Arosemena, Ecuador's progress-minded soldiers have ground out hundreds of decrees organizing a civil service, setting up a land reform, revising the tax system. New industry (paint, textiles, detergents) is flowing into Quito and Guayaquil. In the highlands, where half of Ecuador's 4,700,000 people (80% of them Indian-descended...
...week mounted a considerable effort to show off its growing economic strength. The Leipzig Trade Fair, celebrating its 800th anniversary, attracted an alltime-high 10,300 exhibitors, including thousands from 75 nations. The outsiders tended to agree that the most Stalinistic satellite in the Soviet orbit lately has made progress of sorts. The East Germans displayed and sold their own well-wrought machine tools, electronic devices and office equipment; they reached into their foreign-exchange reserve to order millions of dollars' worth of British trucks and a West German chemical plant. They also announced the signing of their first...