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...orange anticollision paint, a U.S. Air Force 707 jet lifted away from Andrews Air Force Base one morning last week and set course for South America. On board was Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon and his 35-man delegation to the vital Alliance for Progress conference at Punta del Este, Uruguay. The delegates carried a rough outline of the shape of the Alliance and a ringing challenge from President Kennedy: "The hopes of millions of people throughout the Americas rest to a very large extent on the success of your efforts." As their jet winged south-southeast, they...
...narrow Uruguayan peninsula separating the mouth of the River Plate from the Atlantic Ocean lies Punta del Este. a resort town that comes to life only in the South American summer. Last week the temperature hovered at 52° in the South American winter, but Punta del Este was hardly deserted. Platoons of security agents swarmed through the town, and squads of workmen were everywhere, repairing streets, painting walls, planting flowers...
...prepared for Punta del Este, the U.S. was betting that once a dynamic aid program gets under way, the current crisis of confidence will end. It must, if the alliance is to succeed...
...opposed to British membership). In his turn, Kennedy explained the principle?financial help for countries that will instigate social reforms?of his ambitious Alianza para el Progreso in Latin America (TIME, Feb. 24). De Gaulle suggested that a Common Market observer would attend the Alianza's first conference in Punta del Este, Uruguay, next month. When Kennedy stressed the need for France and other NATO allies to join in multilateral assistance pacts, De Gaulle cited the aid, amounting to nearly a billion a year, that France is giving its former colonies...
...million starter from Congress, the U.S. has called a meeting of the OAS Inter-American Economic and Social Council to start concrete work "in all key areas of economic and social betterment." The meeting, to begin July 15, will probably be held at the exclusive Cantegril Country Club at Punta del Este, a Uruguayan beach resort 60 miles east of Montevideo, and President Kennedy may fly down for the opening...