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The Unending Struggle

1965•30m
Documentary

POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY: Presents various aspects of the political, economic, military, and cultural interests of the U.S. abroad, showing some of the ways in which the foreign service protects and advances these interests in Ecuador. Shows views of the city jail in Quito where an imprisoned American is in need of help, of docks at Guayaquil where the American Attache works among laborers and officials of the banana loaders trade union, and of the Presidential palace where U.S. Ambassador Maurice Burnbaum discusses the Alliance for Progress with the ruler of Ecuador.

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EN

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Alexander Scourby

Alexander Scourby

Narrator

Ralph Camargo

Narrator

Maurice Burnbaum

Self

James F. McKiernan

Self

Daniel Clare III

Self

Harry Lofton

Self

Martin Forrester

Self

Jim Shea

Self

Robert E. White

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Earl Lubensky

Self

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