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...Senator Charles H. Percy addressed party workers in New Hampshire. California's Republican Governor Ronald Reagan, in office just 100 days as of this week, has already paid three visits to Washington. President Johnson, only recently back from Guam, heads off this week to the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este for a meeting with Latin American heads of state. Of all the potential candidates, only New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller stayed put-waiting to see how the others...
...site of the three-day meeting is mildly symbolic: it is the Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este, where the treaty for the Alliance for Progress was signed by the countries' economic ministers in 1961. Despite impressive economic growth in several countries, notably Venezuela and the Central American republics, the Alliance has fallen short of its goal of freeing Latin America from the gross disparities between rich and poor, from the rigid tariff barriers that inhibit trade, and from the debilitating dependence on only one or two crops...
President Johnson was stymied last week by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Led by its chairman, Senator Fulbright, the committee refused to support a joint resolution -- scheduled on the eve of the Latin American summit conference at Punta del Este -- which would have promised to back financially the new Common Market south of the border...
...main point of the weekend was to pave the way for next week's hemisphere conference at the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este, which Johnson plans to attend along with 20 Latin heads of state. At the top of the agenda are talks on joint inter-American programs for developing the basic economies of the nations south of the Rio Grande and on creation of a Latin American common market...
After a torturous half-hour, Fuenzalida nosed up through the buffeting winds and started back for Punta Arenas. Over the Strait of Magellan, the oil pressure in the right engine dropped to zero, forcing Fuenzalida to turn it off. The Piper lost altitude gradually, just made the runway. Sayle headed straight for the nearest wirephoto machine in Santiago, and next morning the Times splashed its scoop on the front page along with Sayle's pictures. Wrote Sayle: "The sight of Gipsy Moth plowing bravely through the wilderness of rain and sea was well worth...