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...brand of discipline, when imposed, has helped to touch off riots in Cairo and intra-government disagreements in Peru. When the dictatorial Peruvian regime refused to impose IMF restrictions last month, both the head of the Central Bank and the Finance Minister resigned in protest. No doubt the IMF and the private banks will reach an accommodation with Peru, possibly by stretching out debt repayments...
Walter Locke '71-4, who produced Avenue of the Americas, says he originally went to Chile in 1972 to see what was going on, to document the building of a socialist society. Produced by Locke, directed by Peruvian Jorge Reynes and written by Charles Horman '64 (one of two Americans killed during the 1973 coup), the film depicts those people who supported the U.P. coalition, recording their faith in Allende and his policies. When the truckers who formed the basis of Chile's infrastructure went on strike--supported by money from the CIA--these were the people who refused...
...Peruvian delegate" Nancy L. Musmeci, a student from Wells College in upstate New York, said she came for "a ride to Boston...
...further recent irritation in Peruvian-Chilean relations has been the two countries' inability to agree on a formula for giving the Bolivians the access to the sea they lost when, as an ally of Peru, they were also defeated in the War of the Pacific. Chile recently offered to cede a strip along its border with Peru to Bolivia as a corridor to the sea. But Peru objected and invoked its right, obtained under a 1929 treaty, to veto any further change in status of territory that had once belonged to it. One reason for its objection is that...
...head off any Peruvian-Chilean clash, Latin American bishops and U.S. diplomats, among others, have been trying to defuse the situation. However, both countries have already suffered a defeat-wasting valuable resources on arms at a time when the money could have been spent on advancing their underdeveloped economies...