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...Democrática (A.D.). Its leader: scholarly, owlish Rómulo Betancourt, 50. In his dust, Betancourt left Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, head of the revolutionary junta that ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez last January, and Rafael Caldera, candidate of the Social Christian COPEI party...
...exhibited. By granting his consent. Larrazaáal stands to gain an estimated 150,000 Red votes, which could be decisive if the three-way election is a close contest. Others in the race: Rómulo Betancourt. of the leftist Democratic Action Party: Rafael Caldera, of the Catholic COPEI Party...
Smiles & Hopes. For the record, non-Communist Venezuelan leaders are making mild protestations. Rafael Caldera, speaking for his Christian Socialist Copei, Democratic Action (A.D.) and the Democratic Republican Union (U.R.D.), politely turned down the idea of a Popular Front because of the Communist Party's "concept of state order and its international obligations." Last week A.D. Boss Rómulo Betancourt said that his party "does not want Communist help," and Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, chief of the five-man military junta, declared that he was a Roman Catholic and that "Catholicism and Communism are antagonists...
...York, a joint "Great Civic Front" was tentatively pieced together by Venezuela's three foremost political leaders: Rómulo Betancourt, 49, president of a semimilitary government from 1945 to 1948 and head of the left-wing Democratic Action Party; Rafael Caldera, 41, leader of the Copei (Christian Social) Party; and Jóvito Villalba, 49, head of the middle-of-the-road Republican Democrat ic Union. Together, the three politicians framed a plan for a period of mutually shared noncompetitive politics to avoid the possibility of partisan political strife that could open a way for the return...
...many seats, especially in Caracas, had been certified to the U.R.D. and COPEI opposition parties in the two days of free vote-counting that the boss's majority fell short of the two-thirds needed to assure a quorum for assembly business. The dictator took characteristic action to make sure that members of the parties from which he had snatched victory would not boycott the new assembly...