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...Freeman has a tough act to follow. Under able former Ambassador Thomas C. Mann, who recently moved up to Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (TIME cover, Jan. 31), Mexican-U.S. relations reached a rare high point. The nagging, century-old Chamizal border dispute on the Rio Grande at El Paso, Texas, was amicably settled last year, and the Kennedy visit in 1962 brought vivas and warm abrazos all around. But the U.S. would still like to see a firmer stand by Mexico against Castro's Cuba...
...efforts at quiet mediation had failed. Nor would any U.S. gesture of conciliation shake Panama's deter mination for a showdown over the canal. And so last week, the OAS unhappily voted 16-1, Chile alone dissenting, to invoke the Rio pact and formally investigate Panama's charge of U.S. aggression during last month's Canal Zone riots...
Perhaps Not. But unemployment, crushing debts, too many children and too little food are facts of life in the city just as much as they are in the boondocks. Unskilled and unschooled, the migrants simply disappear into Rio's hillside favelas, Caracas' ranchos, Santiago's callampas, the slums that choke every large Latin American city. In a year's time, squatters at the edge of Colombia's port city of Barranquilla turned a bean field into a shantytown of crude huts housing 2,500 people. Lima's slums are growing ten times faster than...
...Rio recently put the torch to an entire hillside favela after moving 684 families into the new Vila Alianca housing development. But Brazilian cities must build one new house or apartment every two minutes to keep up with the growth rate-and even Sao Paulo's amazing building boom is good for only one every ten minutes...
Shortly after dawn, the party of twelve doughty adventurers donned life jackets, split into pairs and shoved off from shore on half a dozen rubber rafts. Mission: to shoot the rapids of the swirling Rio Grande as it passes through 1,900-ft.-deep Mariscal Canyon in Texas' Big Bend National Park. A jagged rock gashed one raft, temporarily putting it out of commission, but Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 65, and his bride of six months negotiated the hair-raising 14 miles of pounding waves, treacherous turns and large rocks without a spill. First-Timer Joan Douglas...