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Maria Teresa was married to President Victor Paz Estenssoro in 1955, having first met him during a post-college stint as an airline hostess. She speaks fluent English and French, is an avid reader in both languages (favorite authors: Graham Greene, Albert Camus), collects paintings by Bolivian artists, is an enthusiastic theatergoer. She is also the hard-working head of the Costurero del Niño (literally, children's sewing box), a charitable organization that distributed clothes to 50,000 underprivileged children last Christmas. For her three daughters, aged three, five, and seven, who have been given a strict...
...will study South American social agencies, in particular a Columbian school for underprivileged children near Bogota. Rosaldo plans to investigate social problems of migratory Indians in Ecuador and Peru. The remaining projects are in the humanities in Bolivia and Argentina: Spencer will work on the background of the 1952 Bolivian revolution, Kahn and Miss Meyer on topics in contemporary Argentine literature...
...Venezuela, pro-Castro violence left 32 dead, and for a time made things warm for the government of militantly anti-Castro President Rómulo Betancourt. Riots or demonstrations erupted in Brazil. Peru, Chile. Mexico and El Salvador. In La Paz. Bolivia, 33 were injured, one fatally. Said a Bolivian delegate: "If I vote for sanctions, I had better not return to La Paz, or I'll be hung from a lamppost on arrival...
...tiny Fairfax County, Va., stream, the nude body of Marta Santa Cruz, 22, was discovered by two teenagers. Marta had apparently been raped, then strangled. Her hands and feet were bound, and flesh scrapings found under her fingernails indicated a desperate struggle with her attacker. Daughter of a retired Bolivian army colonel. Marta worked as a clerk-typist at the Washington, D.C. Hospital Center, was a frequent guest at parties given by Bolivia's Ambassador Victor Andrade. ¶ In North Buffalo. N.Y.. frightened parents confiscated their children's bikes, Bible-class attendance dwindled, and one cautious housewife...
...Bolivia, Castro agents working out of the Cuban embassy hatched a plot with local Communists to overturn the government of Reformer-President Victor Paz Estenssoro with a "hunger march" on the capital by striking leftist tin miners. Forewarned, the Bolivian government declared a state of siege, rounded up the chief conspirators and called out a well-armed militia of nonstriking workers to block all roads into the capital. The march fizzled...