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Quite obviously, many outstanding political leaders in this country and abroad feel differently. Accolades for A.D.A., on the occasion of its 15th anniversary, were received from Eleanor Roosevelt, former Senator Herbert Lehman, Hugh Gaitskell, Ambassador to Peru James Loeb, Mayor Robert Wagner, President Betancourt of Venezuela, Senator Paul Douglas, President Adolf Scharf of Austria, Walter P. Reuther, Senator Joseph Clark, Mayor Willy Brandt, James Carey, David Dubinsky, Roy Wilkins, Chester Bowles, Kenya Political Leader Tom Mboya, Senator Wayne Morse, Governor Hughes of New Jersey, Robert C. Weaver, Senator Maurine Neuberger, Governor Nelson of Wisconsin, Joseph Grimond, leader of the British...
...Fiercer Attack. One of the most conspicuous members of Muñoz' Democratic Left-and a man on whom the U.S. counts heavily-is Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt. A onetime radical revolutionary who has moderated his views with time, Betancourt was elected three years ago to govern a country rich in oil but economically ravaged by dictatorship. He has struggled to restore financial stability and provide jobs for his people, who were largely illiterate (illiteracy has dropped from 57% to 27% in three years) and mostly poor. No leader is under fiercer attack...
...posting snipers on roofs of the city's housing projects to fire into the streets. In the countryside, bands of Red guerrillas, trained and indoctrinated in Fidel Castro's Cuba, have been roaming the jungle hills, trying to enlist the peasants and skirmishing with Betancourt's pursuing National Guard...
Mush Without Bread. Traveling to the Guárico state capital of San Juan de los Morros, Betancourt angrily charged Fidel Castro with aggression, and confidently warned him not to expect any help from Venezuela's peasants: "The pressure for the government to Cubanize itself has taken the path of violence, terrorism, dynamiting and armed action. Those guerrillas have failed because guerrillas without peasants are like bread mush without bread. The peasants of Venezuela defend this regime because they helped organize it with their votes. We cannot become simple pawns in a world conspiracy moved about by Nikita Khrushchev...
...week's end, Betancourt was under new attack as 400 marines and 50 national guardsmen revolted in the port town of Carupano, 250 miles east of Caracas. The pro-Betancourt forces attacked and held the airport, swept into town. Outnumbered and outgunned, the rebel leader and most of his troops surrendered...