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...neatest trick in the Communist propaganda game in Latin America is the Kremlin's constant bluffing as it plays on the countries' deep yearning for development. When the Reds talked vaguely of offering Bolivia an uneconomic but showy smelter to refine its tin ore, the U.S. showed its cards by lending Bolivia $10 million to revamp the nationalized tin mines, which account for 67% of the impoverished nation's export income. Last week the Communists dealt off another, even bigger offer. In La Paz, Nicolai Rodionov, Soviet bureaucrat, announced that Russia would bid not only the smelter...
...merely by making the headline-catching offer, the Kremlin's propagandists made strides in Bolivia. When a group of junketing members of the Soviet Party Congress arrived in La Paz last week, they were greeted by a wildly cheering throng, which clashed with cops when it tried to raise Red flags atop the airport terminal. Later, a TNT bomb was tossed into the courtyard of the U.S. embassy, shattering windows but fortunately injuring no one. It was the third incident against Ambassador Carl Strom in less than two months, and the government of Bolivia's pro-West President...
...Chief of Naval Operations, decided that South America's navies-at times the butt of jokes-could patrol their own waters with the proper equipment and know-how. Burke saw real defense potential in the total of 390 vessels (see map) and 55,000 men. Only landlocked Bolivia has no navy; backward Paraguay, with a 1,100-mile river link its only outlet to the sea, boasts two gunboats-and two rear admirals...
Last week Antenor Patiño, 65, head of what was once the richest of Bolivia's tin baronies, agreed in principle to a loan of $5,000,000 to the Bolivian government tin corporation. In return, Paz promised to let through a law that would permit Patiño to divorce his first wife, Princess Maria Cristina de Borbón (a niece of Spain's last monarch, Alfonso XIII), and clear up any bigamous misgivings over the status of Patiño's second wife, Beatriz María Julia de Rivera Degeon...
...Cheese. The Russian offer was little more than a tempting bit of cheese on the treadle of a Communist trap. A smelter would give employment to only 100 workers. It would force Bolivia to import large quantities of costly British coke to refine its relatively low-grade (30%) ore. It would put Bolivia in competition with the international tin cartel, thousands of expensive miles from potential markets. Bolivia would have to accept platoons of Soviet "technicians" and go through with the first Russo-Bolivian exchange of diplomats in history...