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RJ g MONDAY. APRIL It. 1M3 ' MEDFOBD MAIL TBIBUNE, MEDFOHD. OHEOOM Alliance for Progress Making Headway To Remedy Colombia's His Mtbir'i nola: Tha fortian nwi inalr.t oi United Prof Intsrnaiionaj nu Jiui eom pltltd 25,000-rail assign mmt In Latin America whwt In United StitM hi commit ted S10 billion ovr 10 ytri In k tlliinr for PrAOTMl . Following is tbo iirtt oi his iive dispatches on ln com plex . problems ..facing ..ibis program and thM ptoplf. By PHIL NEWSOM UFI Foreign Mawa Anilyit Bogota, Colombia - In sprawling Cludad de Techo, a half hour's bus ride from the center of Bogota, the brown face of Leopoldo Cristacho wears a look of mingled pride, frustration and worry. The pride is in his now home. The frustration, over the job still to be done. The worry, a matter of simple arithmetic which tells him he cannot pay for it, despite low interest rates and payments of only $12 per month. Nature endowed Colombia richly. It has lush agricultural lands still open only to the airplane or the jeep. It has minerals, gold, platinum, em eralds. Vast jungles remain to be explored. But it also has an explod I n g population which in creases at the rate of nearly three per cent per year and which threatens to outstrip Its industrial gains. An unskilled peasantry hop ing to escape the banditry and poverty of the countryside Don't N.gltct Slipping FALSE TEETH Do false teetb drop, slip or wobble when you talk. eat, laugh or .ueccv Don't be annoyed and embirrused by such handicap". PASTEETH, an alkaline (non-acid) powder to aprln kle on your plates, keepe falae teeth more firmly net. Olvea conndent feel ing of security and added oomfort. No gummy, gooey, party taate or feel ing. Get PASTEETH today at drug counters everywhere. crowds in upon the cities to the still greater poverty of the crowded shacks which crawl antlike up the moun tain sides. Unemployment is increasing and inflation has boosted the cost of living nearly 25 per cent in the last four and a half months. More than 60 per cent of the people are illiterate. In Bogota, Colombia's cloud-swept capital 8,500 feet high In the Andes Mountains, there is vast government good will toward the United States and the idealism contained in the $20 billion Alliance for Progress progam. And only a lugging impatience that the job cannot go faster. Colombia hopes for a five Americans Injured In Viet Nam Crash Saigon, Vict Nam - OIPH -Two American military men were wounded Saturday when Communist ground fire forc ed down an H-34 helicopter near the city of Da Nang, a U.S. military spokesman re ported. Another helicopter was hit In the same action and a Vi etnamese soldier aboard it was severely wounded. The two helicopters were part of a fleet of IS airlift ing Vietnamese troops to a strike zone 45 miles south of Danang The military spokesman said the pilot of the H-34 which was forced down was wounded in the leg. Another American aboard the helicop ter suffered a broken nose when it crashed. Nassau, Bahamas - IUPD - Jewelry worth up to $280,000 has been stolen from the hbme of Lady Sassoon, widow of millionaire banker Sir Vic tor Sassoon, at Cable Beach. per cent increase in gross na tional product annually over the next 10 years, and to help it the Alliance already has allocated to Colombia more than $160 million in aid. Rockefeller Offers Own Nuclear Policy New York-Wli-Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller said Thursday night that President Ken nedy's European nuclear de fense policy will lead to "chaos" and proposed, in stead, one of his own. Rockefeller, who many be live will face Kennedy in 1064 as the Republican presi dential candidate, urged the United States to help Europe create a nuclear arsenal and strategy that can be coordi nated with our own. He called for a "a North Atlantic political arrangement ! within which nuclear weapons can be controlled and deploy ed for the common good of all free peoples." Such an arrangement, he said, could be achieved through creation of a "genu ine political partnership of strong and independent na tions committed to sharing agreed nuclear responsibilities for the common defense of the Atlantic area." But tax loopholes still pit mit the wealthy to avoid their taxes, and the inflationary spiral touched off by devalu ation of the peso coupled with a general wage increase for city workers hit hardest the small coffee grower, the, man most in need of help. From earlier hopes of a balanced budget, the govern ment's position has deterior ated to the point where now a deficit of at least $100 mil lion is anticipated. The other side of the coin is the country's relative poli tical stability as compared with the remainder of South America, and the fact that leftist forces are scattered and lack strong leadership. Leopoldo Cristacho is a $50-pcr-month policeman rec ently removed from a Bogota slum with his wife and four children to Ciudad de Techo, a huge housing project under the Alliance for Progress. It lies whitely in the sun and dust and is only partially com pleted. But eventually it will provide homes for 85,000 peo ple who now live 8 and 10 to a room in the unsanitary hopelessness of the slums which press in upon Bogota from all sides. . Cristacho and his family formerly lived in a two-room flat which cost him S5 per month. It had no lighting,, hot water or plumbing facilities. His new home will have all of that. The plumbing has; been installed, but neither the water nor the electricity has been connected. Cristacho figures his ex penses at $12 per month for his mortage, $10 a month for improvements, $10 for cloth- The Family Council hdltor's note: The Family council consisti of a judge, a piiychiatrist, three clergymen, three editors at a a women's editor. F.ach arUcle Is a summary of a family disagreement presented to the , Council. The Council deals with nroblemi. malor and minor. encountered by guidance counselors and social workers. Edited by Mrs Alma Denny. (Copyright by General Features Corp.) ing and a.-ound $30 for food Like iiis government, he is over his budget. Present head of the gov ernment is President Guiller mo Leon Valencia, a courtly man with a greying leonine head of hair, the son of one of Colombia s great national poets. In an interview with this correspondent, he described Colombia as an "open win dow" ready to exhibit the fruits of the Alliance for Pro gress, but, he added, a win dow which still is mostly emp ty. "But upon the Alliance," he said, "depends the future J of all South America. Eeither j demoncracy will flourish or the whole continent must sink into misery and chaos. "In that event, a Commu nist take-over is inevitable." But, great as are Colom bia's problems, a start is be ing made. U. S. Ambassador Fulton Freeman presents a partial list: 31,175 houses started in. 1962, 155 classrooms built, 300 started and contracts let for nearly 1,200 more, 24 pub lic health centers built, and 96 million pounds of food dis tributed under "Food for Peace." And thoughtful Colombians cling to the belief that if any South American nation can achieve Alliance goals, theiri is the one. They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Eggtempra raints abstracts unpatmoma6le indeed but. prints his name plainly for viewers to read Now HERE'S REALIST ARTIST SHOEHORN DRI8BLE WHOSE CHROMOS ARE SIGNED IN A SANSKRITIC SCRIBBLE" Paul E. - An infant would be all right, not a 9-year-old Audrey E. - This child does n't know what having a home means. Paul E. - I agreed to my wife offering foster care to a child, but I pictured a small baby. Instead, the social work er wants to place a 9-year-old girl with us. On a visit, the youngster hung her head and wouldn't even look at us. I can see trouble ahead with a mean, sulky kid. Audrey should refuse this one and ask for a newborn infant. Audrey E. - My heart went out to poor little Sally. I think we can bring a smile to that sad, scared face, with the help of the agency. They told me her father, an alcoholic, hits her, and her mother neglects her. She's afraid of grown ups. Here's our chance to show her two who will treat her with kindness. Paul should be glad to try this. Tha Council: There's no guarantee, Paul, that the new born infant you envision won't have a serious problem zipped inside the bunting. When you agree to undertake foster care you automatically agree to join the "team," (in cluding you, Ihe real parents, and the social - workers) in grappling for a solution. It's never just physical care; emo tional wounds must be bound up, too. And Audrey impress ed the agency as a woman who will be generous with hugs, praise, words of accept ance, smiles of approval . . . It won't be easy. Sally will "act up," but the social work er will prepare Audrey for this and guide her in handlinq. it. She'll learn to interpret the misbehavior. Behind it is a shaky, worried child who's sure she's unloved and un lovable. Being bigger and wiser than Sally. Paul and Audrey can disprove her ugly concept of herself and show her the true meaning of two words, badly garbed in her mind - home and parents. 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