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...country through massive social reforms and self-help development programs. He offers more food, better jobs, new roads, schools, hospitals, industries. He reminds the Indians of the Inca civilization that once flourished in Peru, talks of "a new renaissance," and challenges them to enlist in what he calls "the conquest of Peru by Peruvians...
...call for reform and development comes through loud and clear. In others, the attitudes of centuries are hard to change. Everywhere, it will be nip and tuck to meet the suddenly rising expectations. As one hacienda owner says: "We have held our Indians in bondage and misery since the Conquest. Now our day is passing, their day is dawning. The transition could be a nightmare...
...legal separation, was awarded custody of their three children-and plunged on with his Ace ion Popular. He published a book pleading for the integration of the highland Indian in the national economy. "This," he wrote, "is the great battle that still has not been fought in the conquest of Peru...
...that we could not now or in the foreseeable future win the war in Vietnam. I also said that we could not afford to lose the war and that there was no reason why we had to lose the war unless the North Vietnamese were determined to push the conquest of the South at all costs to themselves. Our current policy, which I did endorse, warns the North that they can escalate the war in the South only at the price of our escalating in the North. Presumably the two things the North Vietnamese leaders want most to avoid...
...Tillich to conclude that there is a definite limit to hope for peace on earth as prescribed by Pope John. Men must "distinguish between genuine hope and Utopian expectations." Genuine hope is found in such factors as the atomic threat that has imposed on mankind a common destiny, the conquest of space that makes neighbors of distant nations, international cooperation in science and medicine...