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Carlos Lacerda, former governor of Guanabara, Brazil, will discuss Brazilian politics and the recent Punta del Este conference with Albert Hirschman, professor of political economy, and Evon Vogt, professor of social anthropology, at 8 p.m. tonight in the Leverett House Old Library...
While all the pomp and all the military security that surrounded the American chiefs of state at Punta del Este was being dismantled this weekend, it was unclear just what this conference had actually contributed to the future of Latin America. There were two key themes of the meeting. The presidents formally committed their peoples to a "substantially operating common market" by 1985. And the United States firmly but politely let it be known that it supported the principle of preferential tariff policy by all industrialized nations toward the entire underdeveloped world, but would not accept Latin American demands...
Watered Down. Johnson wanted to take to Punta del Este a promise of $1.5 billion in additional U.S. aid to help bring LATCOM (Latin American Common Market) into being. He asked for a special congressional resolution that would pledge the extra U.S. aid-and ordinarily he would have got it. The House passed the resolution by a 2-to-l margin, but Senator J. W. Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a critic of John son's Viet Nam policy, balked...
Casino Conference. The Presidents will find Punta del Este a delightful place in which to deliberate. A peninsula 85 miles east of Montevideo, it has miles of glittering beaches, pine-dotted lawns and flaming hydrangeas. The busy summer season-late November to March-has just ended, but an influx of 2,100 security guards, 1,800 newsmen and 2,000 diplomats and aides will make up for the departed vacationers. During the four days at Punta del Este, President Johnson is staying in a seaside white chalet called Beaulieu, which has been put at his disposal free of charge...
...pushing his programs with such self-righteous zeal that he often offended even would-be supporters. He started a running feud with the opposition-controlled Senate, which last month even denied him permission to travel to the U.S. on a state visit and allowed him to fly to Punta del Este this week only as a gesture of national pride. It was largely to show the Senate who was boss that Frei put such emphasis on the municipal elections, confident that a popular surge of votes for his Christian Democrats would intimi date his opponents. The people failed to respond...