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...colored ballots so that Communist strength could be plainly exhibited. By granting his consent. Larrazaáal stands to gain an estimated 150,000 Red votes, which could be decisive if the three-way election is a close contest. Others in the race: Rómulo Betancourt. of the leftist Democratic Action Party: Rafael Caldera, of the Catholic COPEI Party...
...protestations. Rafael Caldera, speaking for his Christian Socialist Copei, Democratic Action (A.D.) and the Democratic Republican Union (U.R.D.), politely turned down the idea of a Popular Front because of the Communist Party's "concept of state order and its international obligations." Last week A.D. Boss Rómulo Betancourt said that his party "does not want Communist help," and Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, chief of the five-man military junta, declared that he was a Roman Catholic and that "Catholicism and Communism are antagonists." But the politicians' deeds are less impressive. Machado's presence...
...possible," the memory of Pérez Jiménez' persecution left Venezuela's long-harassed politicians still a bit gun-shy. In exile in New York, a joint "Great Civic Front" was tentatively pieced together by Venezuela's three foremost political leaders: Rómulo Betancourt, 49, president of a semimilitary government from 1945 to 1948 and head of the left-wing Democratic Action Party; Rafael Caldera, 41, leader of the Copei (Christian Social) Party; and Jóvito Villalba, 49, head of the middle-of-the-road Republican Democrat ic Union. Together, the three politicians...
...despite their plans for Venezuela's political future, the three leaders were in no hurry to dash home to put them into effect all at once. Instead, Betancourt and Caldera waited patiently while Villalba went ahead to test...
...varsity's one-two punch of Pete Harpel and John DuMoulin in the hammer looks exceptionally strong, although Cornell's Sergio Betancourt placed third in last year's Heptagonals...