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...Caracas bull ring chanted "Caldera si, Gallegos no!" Venezuela's chief opposition party, the right-wing COPEI (Committee for Independent Electoral Political Organization), had at last found a candidate for the presidential election on Dec. 14. Against famed 63-year-old Novelist Romulo Gallegos, candidate of the ruling Acción Democrática, would be pitched young (31), burly (6 ft., 200 lbs.) Rafael Caldera, one of COPEI's founders...
...opening speech of his campaign. After the cheers had rolled away, he outlined his party's "Social Christianity" program. "The rich should be less rich, the poor less poor," he said. He asked more rights for labor. Pumping away with his right arm, he attacked the Marxism of Acción Democrática, called for "social peace" to replace the class struggle. Caldera, whose party has church support (it accuses Acción of being anti-Catholic), plumped for a concordat that would abolish the state's present right to approve church appointments...
...tumbledown house in the north end of the capital, Caldera talked of the campaign. Said he: "We have no great illusions. Our fight will be important in the civic and educational sense." A year ago, in the elections to the Constituent Assembly, COPEI polled about 220,000 votes to Acción's 1,200,000; Caldera was one of 19 COPEI members elected to face Action's 137. This week Caldera begins a 20-state tour; the ex-schoolteacher will learn a lot of civics between now and election...
...taught harmony teacher, then as director of Caracas' School of Music, he plugged for a place for the arts in the national life. The revolution of 1945 gave him his big break. Elected to the Constituent Assembly as a supporter of President Rómulo Betancourt's Acción Democrática, he sold the Government on the idea that a good symphony orchestra would be good for the country...
Venezuela was a fair example. There Acción Democrática, now in power, had outorganized the Communists politically and in the trade unions. Soviet representatives, keenly interested in Venezuela's million-barrel daily oil production, had used their influence over the Embassy luncheon table to induce the leaders of the three feeble Communist groups to unite. But even when merged, these drew only 51,000 votes in last month's election...