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Muddy Shoes. Most countries that invited the Peace Corps asked for schoolteachers and instructors to train their own people in such trades as carpentry, plumbing, home economics, nursing. In the village of Rio Negro in southern Chile, Janet Boegli, 22, from Austin, Texas, shares a small house with two Chilean girls, teaches women how to use a sewing machine, knit, mix powdered milk, clean beer bottles to use for babies' formulas. Chilean volunteers have organized communities of 20-30 houses, called centros. They raise money to buy sewing machines and other needed equipment by organizing fiestas and raffles. "What...
...hour general strike called by labor leaders in support of President Joāo ("Jango'') Goulart, who for three weeks has been engaged in a bitter power struggle with Brazil's Congress. In the town of Duque de Caxias, an industrial suburb ten miles from Rio, workers milled in the streets demonstrating against shortages of rice, beans and other staples. A jittery guard fired two shots, one of them hitting a small child. The crowd turned berserk, beat the guard to death, and for two days mobs sacked the town, looting stores and attacking merchants. Before...
...proved. At week's end, Goulart asked the Supreme Electoral Tribunal for a plebiscite within 30 days to restore the powers of the President. The country's military brass now gave Goulart their blessing, and it seemed likely that the voters would do the same. Said Rio's respected Jornal do Brasil: "The head must come back to its place. A true power must occupy the vacuum which now exists...
Each morning, in his extradition-proof haven of Brazil, Edward Mortimer Gilbert, 38, trudges down to take the sun along Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach...
...usual, come well briefed for the problems to be discussed: the longstanding Chamizal border dispute, arising from a slight shift in the course of the Rio Grande, Mexican complaints that U.S. irrigation projects were making the upper Colorado River too salty for Mexican farmers. Kennedy had planned to bring up Mexico's adamant hands-off stand on Cuba if he got on well with López Mateos-and he did. But he did not press too hard. Castro and Cuba were not why he was in Mexico...