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...Priority. In his war against poverty, Belaúnde has set up cooperación popular, a self-help plan for rural Indian communities in which the government provides tools and technical advice and the Indians build roads and airstrips. But he has been able to make only a token start on his favorite project: a vast superhighway system across the Andes to open the fertile Amazon Valley to settlers...
...TOKEN OF A COVENANT by Hans Graf von Lehndorff. 328 pages. Regnery...
...earners moonlight in order to build on an extra room or buy a new freezer. The consumer can make the economy rise by trading up from hamburger to steak, buying an air conditioner to replace the window fan or taking that long-planned trip to Europe. By the same token, he has the power to slow or reverse the economic advance by deciding to postpone his purchases. "The consumer is the key to our economy," says Macy's Jack Straus. "When the country has a recession, it suffers not so much from problems of production as from problems...
Russia accepted, in principle, the oft-proposed idea of a voluntary U.N. "rescue fund," to which it could contribute without directly supporting the operations it objects to. But the U.S. still insists that the Russians cannot have a voice in the Assembly before they make at least a token payment...
...Switzerland's bulging banks is secrecy, which the Swiss have shrewdly used to lure shy money from all over the world. Any threat to this hush-hush, confessional quality is therefore a blow at the very center of the multibillion-dollar Swiss banking industry. By the same token, a nation or group that sets out to track down the wealth of teetering tyrants or the merely discreet rich frequently looks with frustration to the Swiss banks, with their anonymous sanctuary and numbered accounts. Last week secrecy and the desire for disclosure clashed in the Swiss courts - and the Swiss...