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Clearly having the time of their lives last week were Bolivia's President René Barrientos and Peru's President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Barrientos and Belaúnde were on a three-day inspection of the Peruvian link of Belaúnde's proposed marginal road, a 4,300-mile highway that will open up thousands of acres of isolated Andes back country, and follow the mountains from Venezuela down through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, linking up with highway systems in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil...
...other things to discuss as well. Landlocked Bolivia is bickering with neighboring Chile, and therefore wants a new route to the Pacific, which Peru could provide. In turn, Peru's military, miffed about a call for Latin American disarmament by the Presidents of Chile and Colombia, wants closer ties with Bolivia's ex-Air Force General Barrientos, who is friendly with the Presidents of Argentina and Brazil-both of whom are also ex-generals...
...Bolivia, Rene Barrientos, 47, ex-Air Force general who deposed President Victor Paz Estenssoro two years ago, was inaugurated as Bolivia's 47th President. With massive support from the country's long-neglected campesinos, Barrientos' motley coalition party of leftists and rightists swept into power with 100 of Congress' 129 seats, promising more of the same firm, reform-minded government that began with Barrientos' military junta. In his inaugural speech, Barrientos assigned top priority to creating 10,000 new jobs in private fields; building scores of new schools and hospitals and at least...
...pilot, Captain Robert D. Hickman, 32, had apparently lost consciousness over the Caribbean, and that the U-2 had probably been guided by its automatic pilot until it ran out of fuel. Hickman's body was found in the debris on a rugged plateau in west-central Bolivia...
...takes office Aug. 6, Barrientos may find that being a civilian President is far tougher than being a military strongman. Though his F.R.B. holds 100 of Congress' 129 seats, the front is badly split, which could endanger his legislative program. And it is out of such havoc that Bolivia's coups are made. Having made one himself, Civilian Barrientos is prepared for the worst. "If the government does not work," he shrugged to reporters on election clay, ''the military should intervene...