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...than the other two. We could probably control them far more easily." He pointed out that Plaza comes from the non-Communist Latin American nation which has given the United States the most trouble in the past year. Ecuador has demanded the withdrawal of our ambassador from Quito. We complied. And it was Ecuador's President Arismendi who delivered a stinging attack on U.S. economic imperialism in Latin America at the conference in Punta del Este last April. The speech was the only one which ruffled the placid self-congratulatory atmosphere pervading the meeting. And Plaza is a former president...
...poor rice farmer in Urbina Jado, 260 miles southwest of Quito, Miguel Olvera, 27, works as an administrative assistant at the Guayaquil Tennis Club-a job that pays him $200 a month. Francisco ("Pancho") Guzman, 21, is the son of a Guayaquil businessman and a dues-paying member of the club. Neither is particularly well known outside the country. Olvera was eliminated in the first round at Wimbledon last year, and Guzman's best showing abroad came in 1964, when he was beaten in three sets by somebody named Bill Harris in the semifinals of Miami's Orange...
Levi Castillo's troubles and his brief triumph began with the Ecuadorian equivalent of the Tonight show, a radio program that reported all the sessions of the Assembly in the Congress building high on a hill overlooking the capital city of Quito. One recent evening the program became particularly diverting when shrewd parliamentary maneuvering by one of the Deputies forced a clerk to start broadcasting the names of all the delinquent taxpayers in Ecuador. The poor Indians and mestizos of the countryside, listening on their transistor radios, were delighted at the embarrassment of so many rich merchants. President Arosemena...
...planning. Businessmen were soon complaining about government interference; everyone else griped about the junta's delay in calling elections. Recently, the political right, center and left formed a united opposition that erupted in a series of demonstrations by merchants and students alike. As the decibel count climbed in Quito and the commercial capital of Guayaquil, the junta's patience began running out. Two weeks ago, 500 troops armed with rifles and machine guns swarmed onto the campus of Quito's Central University, firing into the air, hustling 800 students and professors off to jail-and triggering even...
...Volunteers will work at grass roots levels to encourage construction of facilities, formation of sports clubs, and camps for the underprivileged, and will probably teach physical education in the local secondary schools. They will also help get underway a strong new program of physical education at Central University in Quito...