Word: bolivian
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Fencing with Foreigners. Those sources would be especially welcome. Elsewhere, the world's oilfields are pocked with trouble. Libya is threatening to issue a decree raising royalties. The Shah of Iran is fencing with foreign oilmen in an attempt to increase his government's take. Bolivian development stopped with the nationalization last October of Gulf Oil Corp. Nigerian production suffered during the long war over secessionist Biafra. By comparison, Indonesia seems relatively calm...
...Bolivian journalists have more to fear than tricky decrees. Alfredo Alexander, publisher of La Paz's morning Hoy and evening Ultima Hora, was with his wife at his elegant estate when a man with a visor cap and large dark glasses delivered a shoe-box-size package. It contained a bomb, and minutes later the explosion killed the couple, sending shock waves through city rooms across the continent...
...melodrama that followed Che Guevara's death in October 1967, no role was more bizarre than that of a bit player named Antonio Arguedas, 41, a former Bolivian Interior Minister. By his own account, Arguedas smuggled a copy of Guevara's diary out of Bolivia and into Fidel Castro's hands, then fled his country to avoid arrest. He has been involved in a cat-and-mouse struggle with Bolivian authorities ever since...
...they have not been destroyed, the hands could serve no further legal purpose-but they might have an enduring sentimental or superstitious value. The generals were concerned that Arguedas might have hidden the hands as well as certain tape recordings, which indicate that Che had been executed by the Bolivian armed forces, not killed in battle, as the Bolivians claimed...
...sure whether Lassa virus belongs to Casals' favorite group of arboviruses. It is related, he suggests, to a virus that causes a devastating Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (TIME, July 19, 1963). Whatever its nature, it may be widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, but relatively unknown to authorities because natives die of it in the bush without seeking medical...