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...charge of our extensive coverage at Punta del Este was Montana-born William Forbis, an old Latin America hand who was our man in Central America two decades ago. He then was called to New York, where he wrote Latin American news and, after becoming a senior editor, was in charge of various sections of the magazine. Three months ago, he moved to Rio de Janeiro as chief of bureau and senior South American correspondent. We asked Bill about his new duties, and he cabled...
...worked pretty hard here at Punta, with sleep averaging out at around five hours a night. But there seemed to come a time about 11 p.m. when summiteers found time to dine, and so did we. Last night 1 looked around our table in a restaurant on the Avenida Gorlero and admired our small crew-it was nice company...
...Lyndon Johnson strode into a huge reception in the San Rafael Hotel on the final night of the historic Punta del Este conference of hemisphere chiefs, Latin American leaders surrounded him and embraced him in one passionate abrazo after another. When they finally turned him loose, their wives besieged him for autographs. "This has been so beautiful," sighed Brazil's President Arthur da Costa e Silva. Said Mexico's Gustavo Diaz Ordaz: "President Johnson is showing heart for Latin America...
...Punta del Este meeting was undeniably a personal triumph for Lyndon Johnson, who had seized on and promoted the idea for a conference that would open a new era of Latin American economic cooperation. It was Johnson's first trip ever to South America and his first opportunity to meet Latin American Presidents, many of whom had been prepared to dislike him. But Johnson proved far more charming and disarming, far more simpatico than most of them had expected-and they were won over. Even more important, the U.S. President sounded a clarion call that none of them could...
...Point Attack. Around the big circular table in a converted gambling casino at Punta del Este, 19 Presidents affixed their signatures to a 10,000-word, red-leather-bound declaration that is aimed at helping Latin American countries solve in unison their cen turies-old problems of illiteracy, poverty and narrow sectionalism. With the sole exception of Arosemena, the Presidents decided on a six-point attack...