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...Andean republics are a storm center of seismic shocks set off by the depth and turbulence of the Peru-Chile Trench in the Pacific, just off the coast. The Andes are under tremendous geologic pressure from both west and east, causing them to rise ever higher above the ocean floor; some day, aeons hence, they may be the highest mountains on earth. Peru itself lies within the "circle of fire," a ring of volcanoes and seismic fault lines encircling the Pacific from New Zealand up through Japan and the Aleutians and down the western rim of the Americas. Because...
...government's reticence in dealing with Toro's brazen band of revolutionaries may be related to the approach of national elections in September. Toro and his followers belong to the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionario, a radical organization that enjoys the support of no more than 3% of Chile's electorate. But the radicals are symptomatic of a mood of unease that could turn Chile into the hemisphere's first country with a freely elected Communist government...
...Chile has speeded up its "gradual nationalization" policy and now owns 51% of the stock in the country's major copper producers, all U.S. firms. Two of the three candidates in the current presidential campaign call for nationalizing the copper companies completely. Gradual nationalization has also been applied to the U.S.-owned Chilean Power Co., and the state expects to take over 44% of International Telephone & Telegraph's phone subsidiary...
...Peterson report to Nixon came only a day after word leaked out about a strong critique of U.S. aid programs prepared for Secretary of State William Rogers by the American Ambassador to Chile, Edward Korry. U.S. effectiveness has been impaired, Korry asserted, "by the persistence of inaccurate or outdated assumptions and by the pursuit of unrealistic objectives." Korry argued: "By not differentiating our development objectives in accordance with realities, we appear to be engaged in developing virtually the entire less-developed world." Like Peterson, Korry found the answer in joint responsibility by donors and receivers for financing and carrying...
...produce 11,000 calories of food per capita in the U.S. We need only 2,500 calories." At the same time, while most of Latin America is suffering from protein deficiency, the U.S. is taking thousands of tons of protein-rich anchovies from the Humboldt Current off Peru and Chile. The anchovies are ground up for chicken feed in Arkansas?food energy that could have gone more wisely to hungry human beings. Worse, some of the fish meal is made into cat food. "And," says Commoner, "we don't even eat the cats...