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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
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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.
Mass Transit Kennedy
proposed S500 million in sub
sidies to improve city rail,
bus and subway services.
House Banking committee
approved bill, awaiting rules
committee clearance. Senate
approved $375 million pro
gram. Education Kennedy re
quested $5.3 billion across-the-board
school aid program.
House Education commit
tee hearings under way. Sen-
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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-
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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.
Draft Kennedy asked
four-year extension of selec
tive service and doctor draft.
House and Senate approved;
bill signed into law.
Wilderness To establish
a national program to pre
serve public land; in their nat
ural state. Senatt passed,
with provision for 8 million
acres immediately and pos
sibly up to 35 million acres
eventually. House No com
mittee hearings set.
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