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...often diagnose them as the disease itself. Second, it is 'their' disease, not ours. They won't bother us by dying on our doorsteps. In fact, if the news industry decides it is better business to inform us about rapes, murders, and Jackie Onassis than the children in Bolivia who are being blinded and crippled by protein starvation, we need never hear about 'them' at all. Third, the population problem is bad politics. Anyone even vaguely familiar with demography knows that industrial development prompts massive fertility declines. But which presidential contender will address the National Association of Manufacturers testimonial crowd...
...ultimate weapon, oil, did much to change the entire balance of their conflict with Israel. Within the United Nations, a bloc of Arab, African, Latin American and Communist countries banded into a new majority, pushing through resolutions that isolated Israel and antagonized the U.S. Only the Dominican Republic and Bolivia voted with the U.S. and Israel when the General Assembly, by a margin of 105 to 4, invited the P.L.O.?with its long record of terrorism?to join in the debate over the Palestine issue. The U.N. welcomed P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat as a conquering hero and gave...
Here is IPI'S scorecard: In South America, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil all have a muzzled press; Bolivia and Argentina are heading that way; and Chile's newspapers have dwindled from eleven in the days of Allende to five today...
...Trans-Siberia Express is running, though there is a strong possibility of having a lady commissar as your sleepermate. Angola's Benguela line, whose locomotives are the world's most fragrant (they burn eucalyptus logs), huffs up and down mountainsides, as does Chile's Antofagasta & Bolivia. The great Sud Express from Paris to Madrid - with a stop at the Spanish border for a change from standard-to broad-gauge (more than half a foot wider) undercar riage - still hauls magnificent Pullmans with inlaid-wood furniture and three-star menus. There are other royal rides for those...
Bomb Blasts. At least two nations oppose the lifting of sanctions. Chile has complained that Cuba flew arms to the late Marxist President Salvador Allende before he was overthrown. Uruguay insists that Castro still underwrites the Tupamaro guerrilla movement. Bolivia, whose military government last week put down an army revolt, and Paraguay may also vote no on the grounds that they are subject to Castroite subversion. Almost as if to underscore such claims, bomb blasts rocked both the Bolivian embassy and the Brazilian Cultural Institute in Quito before the conference...