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...long ago as last August, Caracas' everlasting bolas (rumors) had whispered that the army was dissatisfied with the way things were going in the government offices at green-walled Miraflores Palace. Novelist-President Gallegos and the ruling Acción Democrádtica party wanted to reduce the army to a police force; the army had no intention of being demoted. High officers called on President Gallegos, demanded four cabinet posts, four governorships. Easygoing, well-meaning Gallegos did nothing...
From a Sickbed. The officers waited, then early in November called again. This time they meant business. Gallegos and Rómulo Betancourt, leader of Acción Democrádtica, were willing to bargain but they refused to accept dictation. Behind them, they hinted, were nearly half a million militant party members...
...presenting the names of 46,270 members, they qualified as a Mexican political party under the name of Fuerza Popular (Popular Force). For the moment, they were the only other permanently registered legal political party besides the government's Partido Revolucionario Institutional (P.R.I.). Other opposition parties-the conservative Acción Nacional, Lombardo Toledano's Partido Popular, and the Communists-were trying to corral enough signatures to qualify for the June 30 permanent registration deadline...
...Sinarquistas do best where the campesinos are backward and land-poor. Along the coasts, where people have more modern ideas and organization, they find the going tougher. But authoritative Mexican sources today give them half a million followers, 135,000 votes. Along with the more sophisticated, city-educated Acción Nacional, they add up to a potent conservative force. If the official P.R.I, should ever lose its grip, they might well rule Mexico...
Political Talk. Since Gómez died and left Venezuela free to fight its way toward democracy, Blanco has been a sort of moderator and conciliator among political factions. He is without a politician's ruthlessness, and although he has been president of the now-dominant Acción Democrática party, he has little sympathy for the business of machine politics. Last year, as president of the Constituent Assembly where Venezuela's new democratic constitution was written, his calm reasonableness headed off many a crisis...