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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
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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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