Word: bolivia
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...Bolivia, a band of 100 or so Castroite guerrillas is active. The government got the first hint of their existence a few weeks ago when an army patrol ran into an artfully concealed ambush in a mountainous area 350 miles southeast of La Paz, lost seven men. A subsequent army sweep turned up a recently deserted training area complete with field hospital, bakery, and other clues of the Cuban presence. Bolivia's President Rene Barrientos ordered a Ranger battalion to make pursuit; so far, the army has killed ten guerrillas and captured ten, including a 26-year-old Frenchman...
...Bogota, Colombia's Carlos Lleras Restrepo stopped over in La Paz to deliver a message to President René Barrientos, who had boycotted the summit meeting. Lleras brought word from Chile's Eduardo Frei that he was willing to discuss with Barrientos the possibility of granting Bolivia access to the sea. Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner plans to visit Ongania in Buenos Aires in July...
...Only two who were invited will be absent: Bolivia's Rene Barrientos, who is angry because the question of his landlocked country's access to the sea is not on the agenda, and Haiti's Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, who fears what might happen if he left home. Cuba's Castro was not, of course, invited...
...tiny village of Shanao, Belaúnde asked the name of a new bridge that was going up. "The Rio Mayo," answered a local official. "No," Belaúnde corrected. "Henceforth, this will be known as the Bolivia Bridge, in honor of the great Bolivian President." Not to be outdone, Barrientos announced that he was naming a small town on the Bolivian stretch of the highway "Fernando Belaúnde Terry...
...final communiqué, Peru promised to help find international funds to link Bolivia to the sea by road. The communiqué also provided that both countries would 1) improve the existing railroad service between La Paz and Peru's southern coast, 2) "formalize and enlarge" an agreement covering free navigation on the waters of the Amazon Basin, 3) discuss the possibility of a pipeline across Peru to transport Bolivian petroleum to a Peruvian coastal port...