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Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Benjamin flew to Asunción for the inauguration of Paraguay's new President, Juan Natalicio Gonzalez. He cabled...
...fortnight ago, the Paraguayan rebels seemed to have all but won the war. They had made a bold move in abandoning their base in Conception (TIME, Aug. 18), to strike down river against the capital of Asunción, 130 miles to the south. But as they smashed into the city, Dictator Higinio Morinigo's army got an unexpected shot in the arm: new arms and munitions...
...Asunción, Morinigo's police chief asked factories, stores and banks to open for business. Indian women, riding burros sidesaddle and shielding their heads with umbrellas, began to move toward the markets with food for the hungry capital. Little boys resumed their sale of stuffed, varnished frogs. But Paraguay, too poor to afford a sewage system or central water works for its capital, would be a long time recovering from the latest revolution, its 27th in 41 years. Much of the nation's bumper crop of cotton, earlier estimated at 40,000.tons, had gone unpicked because workers...
Throughout Paraguay's five months' civil war, the rebel base had been Concepcion, 130 miles up the Paraguay River from Morínigo's capital, Asunción. Because the Dictator lacked the ships, he was unable to attack the rebels by the river route. Slowly his ill-equipped troops plodded across country. Just short of Concepción they were blocked by the Ypané River barrier, and not until last month did they sweep into Concepcion. Morínigo cried that the war was as good as over. In shabby Asunción, factory whistles...
...week's end the rebels were close to Asunción, and its garrison of raggle-taggle troops that Morínigo hopefully dubbed the "Second Army Corps." His best force was still near Concepción. The rebels called for Asunción's surrender. Morínigo retorted that the rebels would be squeezed to death between his two armies, ordered the capital to remain calm. Foreign diplomats did not take him seriously. A vanguard had already moved across the border to safety in Argentina...