Show 4 AMBASSADOR MERWIN L. BOH AN Spotlight speaker Will Says Ambassador By DENNIS WHITE Chronicle Staff Writer Alliance for Progress can and will work if we in the United States will do some hard thinking and hard said Merwin L. former United States ambassador to Brazil in an address delivered Thursday in the Union ACCORDING to in addition to sound we must sell the Alliance for Progress not only to our neighbors to the south but to ourselves as We must establish a bridge between the richest country in the and the masses of underprivileged Latin Bohan gave as an example the northeast area of as an area where the Alliance will either off or crash The northeast section of Brazil is confronted with those type of problems that the Alliance for Progress will have to deal with throughout Latin The former ambassador listed some of these The northeast is primarily an agricultural area that is constantly plagued with drought and therefore It is an area where subsistence farming is so much in the majority that a economy would be hard-pressed for IT IS an area in which the population is greater than the resources of the area can Poverty and isolation result in an extremely high degree of illiteracy and public health and sanitation are at a level that is extremely This according to presents an extremely dangerous political problem for the Brazilian government to It further presents a major problem to the success of any program as ambitious as the Alliance for |