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Having beaten down half a dozen uprisings and one full-scale civil war in three years, Bolivian officials moved swiftly to meet another crisis last week. "In view of irrefutable evidence that subversive preparations were afoot," suave, bearded President Mamerto Urriolagoitia ordered the exile of ten civilians and army officers (including one general) and slapped on a drum-tight state of siege...
...Washington, Bolivian representatives urged the U.S. to stockpile Bolivian tin at a price around 90? a lb. Reluctant to pay a bonus of 12½? a lb. above the world price, U.S. officials stuck to the view that the Bolivians would have to continue to help themselves. With little else to sell in the world but high-cost tin, and with their unemployment rolls growing daily, Bolivians could look forward to a long siege...
...Captain Erick Rios Bridoux, Bolivian airman, was accused by the Civil Aeronautics Administration of flying in a "careless and reckless manner" and blamed for the Nov. 1 air collision which killed 55 passengers of an Eastern Air Lines DC-4 at Washington National Airport. The CAA, however, has no power to fix final responsibility; that is the job of the Civil Aeronautics Board...
Some weeks ago, Bolivian Senator Tomás Manuel Elio, who by a strange coincidence is also legal adviser for the Patiño interests, introduced an amendment to the divorce law. When it came up for discussion last week, the President of Bolivia's Chamber of Deputies rose gravely to read a cable from Paris asking that the amendment be pigeonholed. "I do not ask you, Mr. President, to take any action contrary to law," the cable read, "but presently the only divorce suit ... at stake is the one brought against me ..." It was signed Cristina de Borb...
Suggested one Bolivian, recalling that Cristina had once been voted the world's best-dressed woman: "Why not have all the well-dressed Congressmen vote for Cristina, and the shabby ones vote for Antenor...