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...student violence ended in a three-hour battle involving tanks, tear gas and the chatter of machine guns. As if on cue, Velasco summoned his military chiefs. "I quit," he announced. This time, however, there was a change in the script. At the urging of Defense Minister Jorge Acosta, 49, who is Velasco's nephew, the generals refused to accept the President's resignation. Instead, they urged him to accept the backing of the barracks and rule with dictatorial powers. Velasco was agreeable. Three days later, he spoke to the country on the radio: "I assume command...
...Cover: Oil on canvas by Manuel Gregorio Acosta, 48, a Mexican-born Texan and onetime protege of Peter Hurd and Andrew Wyeth, who makes his first appearance in TIME...
...Sacrifice. Last year, at the urging of Mexican archaeologists, President Adolfo López Mateos decided to disinter Teotihuacán and make it the cultural capstone of his administration. With a $1,320,000 grant from the government, Jorge Acosta, one of Mexico's top archaeologists, enlisted 550 laborers to start the picks and shovels working. Behind the diggers came a task force of 37 archaeologists and restorers, carefully gathering everything from stone dartheads to obsidian razor blades. By last week, after the months of excavation, even the most optimistic archaeologists realized that they had vastly underestimated...
...rings, and the core was bisected by a wide avenue that archaeologists have called the Avenue of the Dead. In the center were pyramids and temples, markets and assembly plazas; beyond lay homes and farm lands, spreading out miles from the center. It was a brilliantly colored city, says Acosta, "shining red like blood." Palace and temple exteriors were painted with layer upon layer of lime volcanic powder and natural iron oxide, then buffed to a gleaming finish with green jadeite polishing stones. All streets were paved with a sort of rock-hard red stucco, 4-in. thick...
...blood ran down the steps, you wouldn't have known it," says Acosta. And blood did flow. Acosta found paintings of human hearts with sacrificial knives lying beside. Other archaeologists have turned up shallow dishes cut from the tops of human skulls, as well as a huge red and yellow bowl containing human thigh-and hipbones-suggesting that the Teotihuacanos may have practiced cannibalism. Teotihuacanos also practiced autosacrifice to Chicome Xochitl, a god of flowers. In this rite the worshiper slashed his own finger or eyelids, allowed the blood to soak into porous paper, which was then burned...