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...Peruvian gunboat Loreto should not be the pride and joy of anyone's navy. Built in England in 1932, it makes a mere twelve knots at flank speed and looks like a cross between the Merrimac and an early Frank Lloyd Wright house. There are seven such gunboats in the Peruvian Navy, drawing cheers from the whole country. Their crews are physicians, dentists, technicians and nurses, and their mission is to build schools and provide medical care for 800,000 people, most of them primitive Indians living in the jungles along the Peruvian Amazon...
Established in late 1963, the gunboat fleet is another maneuver of President Fernando Belaunde Terry, 52, in his search for weapons to fight Peru's own version of the war on poverty and disease. So far this year, Belaunde's Amazon fleet has called at 140 jungle settlements, inoculated 16,216 people against smallpox and yellow fever, treated 2,153 for dental problems and another 3,657 for a host of tropical diseases. Among them are okara, a skin disorder that comes from a mosquito bite and permanently disfigures face and body with white and red spots...
...Gunboat Diplomacy. The week started off brightly. General Antonio Imbert Barreras, leader of the loyalist forces, and Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, commander of the rebel army entrenched in downtown Santo Domingo, were honoring the ceasefire. Both sides appeared close to an agreement on the choice of a man to head an interim government until elections can be held. He was Héctor García Godoy, 44, a middle-roading liberal who once served as Foreign Minister in the Cabinet of deposed President Juan Bosch...
Then things threatened to come unstuck again. Caamaño agreed to permit an OAS tanker to enter the rebel-held harbor one afternoon and supply a city power plant. But behind the tanker came an unexpected junta gunboat, bristling with 3-in. artillery and .50-cal. machine guns. If the junta's intention was to provoke an incident, it failed. Caamaño's troops held their fire, and the gunboat churned out of the harbor 45 minutes later. Next night, however, rebel troops started firing their rifles in the air, drawing fire from the junta side...
...Yankee imperialism in Latin America. It was a decision that is making a lot of Latin Americans hate us." Then Kuralt and Quint turned for guidance to Eric Sevareid, CBS National Correspondent. And like a fatherly professor reproving wayward journalism students, Sevareid offered some corrections: "The specter of American gunboat diplomacy, I would suggest, is a much more outworn specter than the very present one of Communism in this hemisphere. I don't see frankly how any President of the United States in 1965 can sit in the White House and send Americans to die against Communists across...