Word: bolivia
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...Jordan: Byroade's predecessor in Afghanistan, Sheldon T. Mills, 54, Foreign Service veteran who took up his first overseas post in Bolivia in 1929, served as Ambassador to Ecuador before moving to Afghanistan...
...large infusions of democracy and U.S. aid were the easy, automatic antidotes to backwardness and poverty that they are often assumed to be, mineral-rich Bolivia (pop. 3,300,000) should be a paradise. The bloody uprising of 1952 led Bolivia into the world's most comprehensive social security, illiterate Indians got the vote and land, the coup-prone army got abolished, and the mines that enriched tin barons of old got taken over by the government. The U.S. chipped in $129 million in aid during the next six years-more Yankee aid dollars per Bolivian than...
...have a damn thing to show for it," he said. "We're wasting money." Up in the clouds of La Paz (alt. 11,900 ft.), inside the drab, grey palace where he is guarded constantly by a manned machine gun, Hernan Siles Zuazo. 44, Bolivia's President, admitted: "The situation is critical and explosive...
...Normal" Inflation. In arguments, most speechmakers fail to distinguish between runaway inflation of the sort that swept Germany after World War II, and that now has Chile and Bolivia in its grip, and the so-called "normal" inflation of 1% or 2% a year that has usually accompanied times of prosperity. Nobody wants runaway inflation. But many economists believe that the U.S. economy cannot grow and prosper without some measure of "normal" inflation...
Bonsai, since March 1957 Ambassador to Bolivia, has had to deal before with a thorny Latin American situation. In 1955, as Ambassador to Colombia, he was accredited to the government of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Distinctly not one of the diplomat types who deem it a simple duty to stay close to the boss, Spanish-fluent Philip Bonsai moved with ease among intellectuals and politicos in Colombia. Among them was Alberto Lleras Camargo, a leading Rojas oppositionist. Rojas put pressure on the State Department and the U.S. eventually withdrew Bonsai, but the urbane diplomat became a hero among Latin Americans...