The Andes: Summit on the Wing

The two men in khakis and mud-spattered boots scrambled up on a huge rock pile, and hammed it up for photographers. Then they clambered aboard a bulldozer, and posed some more. A few moments later, they were riding on the running board of a Ford truck, jouncing along dirt roads past mud and thatch huts, waving eagerly to bewildered peasants.

Clearly having the time of their lives last week were Bolivia's President René Barrientos and Peru's President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Barrientos and Belaúnde were on a three-day inspection of the Peruvian link of Belaúnde's proposed marginal...

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