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...really Police Lieut. Walter Pereyra; Pereyra was Detective Inspector Salomon Wasserman.) The officers had spun a yarn of a highly organized air force plot to do away with Perón. Laborista political backing was solicited. To overcome Reyes' natural skepticism, conspiratorial meetings were held in the Avenida Quintana headquarters of the Civil Aviation General Administration; Air Force General Gregorio Velez, boss of civil aviation, gave a masterly performance as leader of the plot. Laboristas took the bait...
...shiny, modernistic office building in Mexico City's Avenida Morelos, the men of the Department of Soil Conservation studied their maps, graphs and statistics, concluded that the chances were small that the Mexican land would feed its people well. Four hundred years ago Cortes had reported that the richness of Mexico was inexhaustible. Since then, the pine forests that held rain water on the mountain slopes have been cut away. The result has been drought. The Indians have lost their skill in terracing their fields, and their lands are gullied and eroded...
...outstretched in the Aprista salute, as thousands (APRA's estimate: 200,000; opposition estimate: 15,000) passed in review. While fireworks lighted the sky, the people chanted "Elections, yes! Tyranny, no!" (The day before, Bustamante had postponed congressional by-elections for a third time.) Then they jammed the Avenida Alfonso Ugarte to hear their leader...
Walking down Rio's Avenida Rio Branco with Joao de Barro last week was like taking a stroll with Joe Louis in Harlem. Friends embraced him, girls waved, shoeshine boys grinned admiringly. Joāo, whose real name is Carlos Braga, is no boxer, but last week he was champ. In a land where everyone loves song, Joāo had written (with Collaborator Alberto Ribeiro) the song everybody was singing...
...talks from anti-Yankee professors, they were out for trouble. Armed with sticks, stones and one red flag, they headed for Panama City's Plaza Santa Ana to organize a "popular protest," and hoped to get the National Assembly to hold up the agreement. Halfway down the Avenida Central, police met them with tear gas and sabers. For a moment the students gave as good as they got. Then they fell back. Score: 30 hurt (including 17 policemen...