President Galo Plaza Lasso had promised that hard work would be the watchword of his government. In his third week in office, he was living up to his promise.
Up at 6, he whisked through his day in a whirl of callers and scribbled memos, got through work at a rate never before seen in the musty old palace. In two three-hour periods he managed to get in 151 individual interviews. (Grumbled one Ecuadorian: "I didn't have time even to greet him properly.") At 1:30 he passed up Ecuador's hearty midday meal, raided...
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