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Becoming a Quagmire. The winter skies darkened last month, when ten days of rain turned central Chile into a sodden quagmire. Dirt roads, track beds and bridges were washed away. A fortnight ago, when gale-force winds slammed through Valparaiso and Santiago into the Andes, bringing more rains and blizzards, Chileans recognized a new national disaster...
...lowlands and four feet of snow daily in parts of the Andes. Just before dawn one morning in Portillo, a fashionable resort 9,000 ft. up in the Andes, an avalanche hurled a reinforced concrete hut 60 yds. down the slope, killing five of 14 skiers asleep inside. In Santiago, the flood-swelled Mapocho River swept away thousands of slum dwellers' shacks, turned the city's broad avenues into raging streams. And the wind! In one schoolyard, a group of children stood paralyzed by fear as a furious blast of air lifted the roof of their school, then...
...Peru, they are participating without fanfare in government information programs; in Colombia, one is helping pre pare films and slides for family planning. And in Brazil, some even dispense birth-control devices to peasants. Last November, Chile's President Eduardo Frei launched a massive birth-control campaign in Santiago's squalid shanty towns, setting up a dozen clinics to distribute contraceptive pills. In December, Peru's President Fernando Belaunde Terry set up a "Center for the Study of Population and Development" to analyze the country's population problems. In Brazil, a private foundation-sponsored group plans...
...cried. "Get up, you bastards!" Across the rich corn and platano fields of the Cibao Valley, fair-skinned, barefoot women toted gourds from roadside fountains to their thatched shacks, while nearby mounds of rice lay drying in the sun. In the mountains to the north, a grizzled farmer, Vicente Santiago, 65, worried his head over his ten children, his ten hens, his three acres of coffee, platano and corn-and little else. If there was trouble in Santo Domingo, it was of no concern to him. "The governments in the capital do not mean anything to us," said...
...mood of disengagement was even more pronounced in the republic's second city, Santiago (pop. 75,000). There, last week, the movie houses were packed, and a chic fashion show drew a capacity crowd. Well-stocked shops were doing a bustling business, Rotarians held their regular dinner at the downtown Hotel Mercedes, the local civic band played its customary Sunday-afternoon concert in the park, and the binational Dominican-American Center held its usual graduation ceremony for the students who had been learning English...