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SURPRISINGLY enough, Barbie led a high-profile existence in his newly adopted homeland. With the generous help of various right-wing military dictators. Barbie obtained Bolivian citizenship in 1957 and soon established a profitable external commerce company-in reality a front for an arms shipment network. The ex-Gestapo officer, appreciated for his contacts abroad, made friends in high places. As unofficial leader of a fairly large collection of exiled German war criminals hiding in Bolivia, Barbie was able to organize his cronies into a sophisticated paramilitary back-up unit for General Banzar, who took power...
What Barbie never counted on was a shift of power away from the old-style right-wing dictatorships. On October 10, 1982, Hernan Siles Zuazo, leader of a left-wing coalition, ascended to the Presidency. Barbie's Bolivian days were numbered as soon as the new government in La Paz demonstrated its intention to make amends for the past and clean up Bolivia's image as a Nazi haven. And Barbie blundered: following the death of his wife from cancer and the loss of his son in a plane crash the year before, the once nimble war criminal decided...
Some MESA students in the classes of Jaime Escalante know that one teacher rather than grand programs can make the biggest difference. Escalante, 51, a Bolivian immigrant who arrived in the U.S. speaking no English, is chairman of the math department at Garfield High School in the east Los Angeles barrio. With his support, 18 students decided to take the advanced placement calculus test, given to only 2.7% of college-bound seniors by the Educational Testing Service. Drilling them two hours a day after school and assigning four hours' worth of problems for every Saturday, Escalante mounted...
...tall (6 ft. 3 in.), burly American cleric part of an intimate circle of papal advisers. In 1964 the Pontiff selected Marcinkus, a born organizer, to be his advanceman for trips abroad. During the visit of Paul VI to Manila in 1970, the athletic Marcinkus helped to subdue a Bolivian artist disguised as a priest who tried to stab the Pope. Paul VI put him in charge of the Vatican bank in 1969. Last year John Paul II gave Marcinkus the task of running Vatican City's administration; with the new job came the title of archbishop...
...have people who don't possess values of responsibility and respect for others," he says. "The threat the military government sees is that we are raising the consciousness of the people, that the people have a right to a voice and vote in their own destiny." During the Bolivian dictatorship's current reign of terror, a number of priests have been beaten up or jailed, and others have fled. Troops demolished the Maryknoll radio station and printing press in Riberalta...