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Everything was over with the Baltic barons. Erick goes on to international adventuring with a gun for hire in Spain, the Gran Chaco and Manchuria, not with any ideological passion but simply because for one of his birth and background, there seems to be nothing else to do. His is a fable of one who survived-but did not live...
Though a President's son, Hernan Siles literally had to fight his way. Slight (5 ft. 4 in.), nearsighted and mild-mannered, he has endured war and exile, and led a bloody revolution. At 20 he was wounded in Bolivia's Chaco War with Paraguay. At 27 he helped found the Movement of National Revolution (M.N.R.). the mildly leftist party that now runs Bolivia. During the next decade he was exiled twice by anti-M.N.R. governments, fled the country twice more to escape imprisonment. In 1951 he slipped back into Bolivia from exile to direct the campaign...
...Chaco Province, bordering on Paraguay, ten Peronista politicos were arrested for "disturbing law and order." In the central province of San Luis 27 noncommissioned officers routed out draftees for unscheduled "night maneuvers" that the government said were part of a plot with links to other provincial garrisons. Using information the noncoms spilled, police and loyal troops besieged the estate of a Peronista ex-Congressman, met brisk gunfire that killed one soldier before they arrested twelve plotters...
...Chaco and La Pampa...
...Rich. Clarence Johnson, a man born for taming frontiers, is clearing a virgin jungle at the edge of the Chaco and financing the job by means of an unusual idea. As president of the American Economic Development Corp. (the Spanish or Portuguese initials for which work out tidily as CAFE), he is selling packaged coffee plantations...