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...BOLIVIA Volunteers will give technical support to the National Community Development Program, under the Ministry of Agriculture or will teach their specialty in vocational schools in La Paz or Santa Cruz...
...copper, the mineral in shortest supply, the Japanese have signed long-term contracts for the output of mines in Canada, the Philippines, Bolivia. Australia and the Transvaal of South Africa, are now guaranteed shipments of 122,600 tons annually...
Jacobs's radio has provided, on at least one occasion, the only surviving contact with a Latin American nation. After the 1964 revolution in Bolivia, the new government closed all the cable offices and grounded all planes. But the three American television networks set up temporary shop in the home of a ham in Jacobs's Latin American network. Their dispatches were pumped into Brookline, and Jacobs graciously handed them over to the waiting newsmen...
After graduating from the University of Michigan, Vaughn enlisted in the Marine Corps, was twice wounded on Okinawa, and was eventually discharged as a captain. He earned his master's degree at the University of Michigan in 1941, then spent ten years in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Panama as a U.S. Information Service officer and coordinator of U.S. aid projects. In 1961, Shriver grabbed him. Says Vaughn: "The Peace Corps idea had great appeal to me, and the people I knew who were putting this idea into effect appealed to me even more...
...government candidate (Ovando isn't interested) and Bolivia's most popular and colorful figure, Barrientos seems to have a clear field in the elections. Assuming, that is, that he does not kill himself on one of his barnstorming tours. As one of his friends comments: "Only a dead Barrientos will quit trying to be President...