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...assassination of Liberal Chieftain Jorge Eliécer Gaitan...
...five hours one day last week, TIME Inc. Correspondent Thomas Dozier stood by at the funeral of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombia's Liberal chieftain, whose assassination had touched off Bogotá's insurrection. Later, he wired: "Since the shooting ended, life has settled down to trying to cover the Pan American Conference, which is five miles away, get stories written, and still be in the hotel before the 7 p.m. curfew. If you are out after that, you risk being shot first and identified later...
...blocks down the street, a short, muscular lawyer with piercing black eyes stepped briskly out of his office. Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, rabble-rousing leader of Colombia's Liberal Party, was also luncheon-bound. As he crossed the sidewalk, a man with a pistol in his hand slipped up behind him, fired four shots into his neck and shoulders...
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán had done it again. The rabble-rousing Liberal leader followed up his victory in the congressional elections last March by another in last week's municipal voting. Henceforth, Liberals will control 465 municipal councils, Conservatives 321. Gaitán had mopped up among the workers in the newly industrialized towns and cities, more than offsetting Conservative gains in the countryside, where twelve people died in Harlan-County-style election-night fights...
...this week it was apparent that the supply situation had been redressed. Probably it did not yet have the bountiful perfection to which U.S. soldiers have be come accustomed. But one thing was cer tain: General Hodges would not be moving as he was unless he could move with certainty. Above all other things Courtney Hodges was a believer in making sure before he went ahead...