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Unending Struggle, The Part 2 of 3

Reel Number: 221100-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1965

Country: Ecuador

Location: Quito

TC Begins: 03:10:47

TC Ends: 03:22:14

Duration: 00:11:27

The Unending Struggle Part 2 of 3 EXT McKeernan bids farewell to radio station owner & into car. US Vice-Counsel Dan Clare talking w/ students re Communist posters put up around University & outbreak of fish poisoning blamed by some on US - investigating why. 03:12:46 Scenes at city jail in Quito. Embassy Counsel Harry Lofton in prison yard talking to Commissioner re American citizen being held there on suspicion of smuggling after landing in Ecuador without permission - VO translates negotiation - doctor needed as prisoner is ill. 03:14:42 Docks at Guayaquil - Black US Labour Officer Martin Forrester & Senior Attache Jim Shaye in discussion w/ leaders & members of banana loaders trade union - debate benefits to workers of Alliance for Progress. 03:17:39 Jungle near Santa Domingo - US Army team training Ecuadorian army in guerilla warfare. Road-building programme under way on mountainside north of Quito under Civic Action Programme - resources of domestic military put to use helped by US troops - supervised by USAF Colonel C.R. “Dutch” Meyer - ground being levelled. 03:19:16 Village in mountains - car arrives in main square. INT representative from US Aid Programme addresses meeting of town plan committee - flipchart - discuss resources needed, funds pledged, worker cooperation & land. Anti-Communism. US Foreign Policy. Poverty. Third World Aid. South America. 1960s.

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