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Last week a report to the U.N. Trusteeship Council made the U.S. embarrassment more acute. Back from a six-week tour of the islands, a four-nation (Bolivia, Belgium, Britain, India) committee was full of criticism of U.S. policies and performance. The U.S., charged the committee, has 1) done little to encourage economic development, 2) failed to revive island industries launched by the Japanese during their prewar tenure, 3) allowed school buildings to run down and neglected to provide enough secondary education, 4) proved reluctant to place Micronesians in top administrative posts. In short, the U.N. mission called...
...reasons. In Venezuela last week, the Communists and Castroites, who threaten every hemispheric democratic government, burned U.S. Ambassador Teodoro Moscoso's car. In Chile, where famine breeds the same Red-led peasant leagues that already plague Brazil, rioters smashed windows to protest Stevenson's visit. In hapless Bolivia, he witnessed a continuing feud between the government and tin miners that ended in five dead. And in Peru, leftist students who had declared Stevenson persona non grata were dispersed by police with tear...
...Bolivia, Castro agents working out of the Cuban embassy hatched a plot with local Communists to overturn the government of Reformer-President Victor Paz Estenssoro with a "hunger march" on the capital by striking leftist tin miners. Forewarned, the Bolivian government declared a state of siege, rounded up the chief conspirators and called out a well-armed militia of nonstriking workers to block all roads into the capital. The march fizzled...
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...Bolivia's President...