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...questioner was Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peru's vigorous and imaginative president, and the person he was putting on during a lull in the Punta del Este summit conference last week was Jerry Hannifin, Latin America specialist in our Washington bureau. Hannifin, along with White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey and a team of other TIME reporters and photographers, was covering the inter-American gathering at Uruguay's seaside playground, a gathering described by President Frei of Chile as "the most important in hemisphere history...
Latin America looms large in this issue. In addition to the Punta del Este story, written by David B. Tinnin, there is a cover story on Brazil's President Costa e Silva (with eight pages of color photographs), written by Philip Osborne and edited by Edward Jamieson. All told, 27 TIME reporters, photographers, writers, researchers and editors worked on these stories...
...Punta del Este Conference didn't coin anything, neither money, nor rhetoric, nor dreams," Carlos Lacerda, prominent Brazilian political leader said last night...
Lacerda attacked the Conference for not dealing with immediate needs of Latin America. "The real question," he said, "is can the people wait ten years?" Short range questions such as more aid to education -- which Lacerda strongly supports -- and better prices for Latin American exports were ignored at Punta del Este, he asserted...
This is the kind of question that was raised at Punta del Este six years ago when the American foreign ministers hammered out the Alliance for Progress. And yet, last week in the same halls and conference rooms, for all the paens so readily raised to the Alliance, there was surprisingly little talk of how the social and political and economic structure of Latin societies can be changed...