I bring no new program, no easy remedies or simple slogans. From this mission may result new U.S. policies, but this mission does not bring them with it. Let us talk frankly about what is bad and what is good, of hard realities, not only of pleasant things.
So said Nelson Rockefeller as he disembarked at Ecuador's Mariscal Sucre Airport last week on the second of four fact-finding tours of Latin America for President Richard Nixon. He soon encountered hard realities. Leftist students were out in force to give Rocky the most hostile reception of his travels thus far. A helicopter...
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