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...Gustavo Adolfo de Maldonado Medina, as a Bolivian and representing the soul of my people, ask satisfaction on the field of honor from the man responsible for your article [March 2], and name, as the situation demands, my seconds, who shall be Fernando San Martin and Colonel Gustavo Maldonado San Martin...
...reaction to your story on Bolivia [March 2] was more violent but otherwise in line with the response to similar factual descriptions of the Bolivian situation. A year ago Senator Theodore Green and I were bitterly attacked in La Paz for a speech in the Senate and for an article, respectively. I served as fiscal adviser to the Bolivian government on a special U.S. mission in 1956-57. I returned with the conviction that a continuation of U.S. aid policies would lead to further economic and social deterioration and disaster. Privately, most of the U.S. technicians in Bolivia will confirm...
...Bolivia is the brightest jewel in the crown of the Trotskyite Fourth International, the "true," workers-of-the-world-unite Communists who oppose the Russian Reds. In 1956 elections, the Trotskyites drew 2,300 votes, .2% of the Bolivian total. The other major Trotskyite enclave: Ceylon...
...Siles Zuazo, whose ambassador in Peru, getting the magazine a day earlier, had alerted him. Siles made the story the topic of a six-hour Cabinet session, then issued a statement blasting the remark as "damaging to the national honor" and "absolutely inadmissable." The statement gave the Bolivian public to understand that the remark had been put forth as a serious proposal...
...that "shouts do not solve anything, and violence is useless," but he denounced TIME's correspondent as a "journalist without scruples." Out of control, the rioters followed their leaders to stone Point Four's La Paz offices and smash 25 heavy trucks and pickups of the U.S.-Bolivian Roads Service. During one of the attacks, a 15-year-old student was killed...