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TUESDAY. APRIL 30. IMS Peru, Land of Three Worlds, Progressing Under Caretaker (Edilor'i note: Following: ii high sierra and the jungle. ; coca leaf, the source of co- Peru's allocations from the most diversified and stable Contributing nearly people. Some 2,000 are there Through centuries of de scending misery, Quisbe has been Peru's forgotten man, laboring for pennies on the cattle, coffee, tea or wheat plantations and living in huts amid the filth of his animals Quisbe is the No. 1 con cern of the military junta. And of the Lima politicians. land reform program. More will follow and along with it will come teachers to supply modern methods and pools of farm machinery to work the land more efficiently. Among the 200 U.S. Peace Corps workers In Peru, ap proximately 40 are assigned to the Cuzco area. Primarily in second in a series oi five Lima, a mixture of n e w j caine, and he has no hope Alliance for Progress so far total $123 million, much of which has not yet been used by Peru's caretaker military in all of South America. Here there is no runaway ' Inflation. The rise in the cost j of living has been limited to : one or two per cent per year. Gross national product is ad vancing at a rate of better than five per cent a year, com ' paring favorably with most f countries of the world. New Industry Grows i In the last four or five years a new industry, fishing, I has come to Peru. Fish meal pours an annual $100 million ! into the Peruvian economy I and is now Peru's No. 1 ex- I port. much are cotton and copper. Also high on the list are pe ! troleum and sugar. These are the symbols of ! Peru's wealth. But symbols i of the poverty are the adobe shacks which stretch out end ; lessly on the barren sands ' sloping downward toward the ' Pacific and Lima's port of : Callao. An Alliance for Progress i housing project is going up i here for the iflief of Lima's slum dwellers. It is called Ventanilla and is designed I eventually to house 25,000 now. But the $30 million project is 15 miles from the city and transportation is poor. Many who need it most can not travel that far. Nation's Chief Concern Andres Quisbc's village is railed Huancarani. It is 20 miles from Cuzco. two and a half hours by air and cen turies away from Lima. Quisbc's diet, such as it is, is a monotonous rcpition of corn, barley, beans and such tubers as the potato or the oca. His solace is the coca leaf. arliclM prepared by Phil and an ancient Spanish cul But he is stirred by a vague newiom. ut toreign news analyst, alter a lour oi South American countriei. ture, lies on the first of these, the coast. It is the home of Julio Danta, a bright - eyed youngster who hopes to be come a petroleum engineer. Andres Quisbe, a direct de scendent of the incas, lives in the second, the high sierra. He is one of six million who live in misery on pennies per day. Quisbe is addicted to the and sometimes violent unrest. The third world is the sparsely populated jungle. still pre-historic days, its i government Bui the govern riches still untapped ment is instituting land and These are the worlds that , . , Peru must unite if it is t0 government reforms and has fulfill its future and escape ! Promised free elections for By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Lima, Peru - The Andes Mountains rise in a jagged, sawtoothed jumble at Lima's back, dividing Peru into three worlds, the coast, the the shadow of communism i June 9 restore democratic Better Days Ahead Quisbe's poverty is less than that of some, and bet ter life may be on the way. In La Convension Province of Cuzco Department, in late March, the government began distribution of 6,000 acres of land taken over under the i they work now under the which seeks to engulf it. And Processes interrupted by a time is pressing hard. bloodless coup last July. U.S. Food for Peace program. Later will come teachers and engineers. At another day will come roads into the Andes valleys and into the jungle. And on that day, Peru will begin the union of its three worlds. immense weaun is concen trated in Lima, most of it in the hands of a few families. But there also is a burgeoning I TheyH Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo middle class emerging in an economy which is among the MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON A 7 Regime FREELQ4D PELATIVES 7y.,UA M,rS0RRKUA06ETs) .HtLSP Status of Bills in Congress Washington - (UPI) - Status of major legislation: Income Taxes President asking rate reductions and some income-boosting revis ions to give a net cut of $10.3 billion in individual and corp orate rates over three years. House hearings completed, ways and means committee considering at closed door sessions. Senate awaiting House action. 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Send 50c now for Catalog. ate Hearings start this week. Health Insurance Presi dent wants hospitalization program for persons 69 and older financed through social security. House Ways and Means committee hearings ex pected this summer. Senate Awaiting House action. Foreign Aid Administra tion is asking $4.5 billion. House Foreign Affairs com mittee hearings under way. Senate Nothing scheduled yet. Medical Schools Admin istration asked long range construction aid for medical dental schools, loans to stu dents. House passed three year program that would cost $236 million. Senate Noth ing scheduled. Military Pay Administra tion proposed $1,238,526,000 annual pay and benefit in creases for nation's 2,700,000 servicemen, 900,000 reserv ists and 411,000 retired mili tary men. House Bill ap proved by Armed Services committee would cost $47 million less, deny increases for those men (832,000 draft ees and enlistees) who are serving their first two years. Senate Nothing scheduled. Youth Employment Ken nedy asking new $100 million youth conservation corps for outdoor work in forests and parks; home town youth corps for local civic projects. House Education committee has approved. Senate Passed. Domestic Peace Corps President asking for new or ganization of 1,000 to 5,000 skilled volunteers to carry out work in this country sim ilar to peace corps projects abroad. $5 million first year cost. House Nothing sched- Bonn-UPS-West German De fense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel said Monday a North Atlantic Treaty Organization nuclear force must be created to bind Europe and the Unit ed States together and end isolationism on both sides of the Atlantic. - Nothing sched uled. Senate - uled. Mental Health Admin istration wants five-year, $717 million program for commun ity mental health centers; re search and treatment on men tal retardation. House Com merce committee hearings completed. Senate Labor and Public Welfare subcom mittee hearings completed. Civil Rights President asking speedup in voting suits, more protection of Negro voting rights, extension of civil rights commission. House Judiciary committee hearings start May 8. Senate Nothing scheduled Cotton Administration asking relaxation of planting restrictions and new subsidies to provide cheaper cotton for U.S. textile mills which now pay more for American fiber than foreign users. House -Hearings completed, Agricul ture committee awaits Agri culture department reaction to industry-proposed compro mise. Senate nothing sched uled. Feed Grains Kennedy wants to continue the pro gram cf paying farmers to hold down surplus corn and other feed grain production. House Passed two-year ex tension. Senate Quick Ag riculture committee action ex pected. Silver To combat short age of silver for coins admin istration asked authority to replace existing silver-backed $1 bills with gold-backed $1 bills. House passed. Sen ate Hearings scheduled this week. 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