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...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 Badger. Obviously expert in his craft, if not necessarily in the area, was the man who took the color photographs, J. Alex Langley, who covered the vast and rugged area by truck, Jeep, horse, helicopter...
...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) still live, some hacienda workers are paid only 50 a day, are often treated with medieval cruelty. "On many haciendas," says a parish priest, "there is neither...
...festive day in Ecuador last September when Charles de Gaulle swooped into Quito to begin a 25-hour state visit, the third stop on his ten-nation tour of Latin America. Enthusiastic crowds thronged the roads, jammed the balconies, and clambered on rooftops to shower the French leader with confetti and cries of "Viva De Gaulle...
...appeased, the Ecuadorians have now told De Gaulle to keep his medals and have sent them winging back to Paris. For punctuation, a bomb exploded last week in front of the French embassy in Quito, knocking a hole in the embassy's brick balustrade and shattering windows in the embassy and the ambassador's residence. To those who suggested that France should have presented one Grand-Croix to the junta as a whole. Paris' Le Figaro posed the problem. "How," it asked, "to get one ribbon of the Grand-Croix around a junta without making the recipients...
...administrative matters, and generally played revolutionary politics all year long. In 1943, Ibero-American University, a private school closely linked to the Roman Catholic Church, was founded in Mexico. Others followed: Brazil's Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and Ecuador's Catholic University in Quito, both in 1946; and Venezuela's Andrés Bello...