Word: democrate
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...less resentful was a politico named Rómulo Betancourt, whose left-wing but anti-Communist party, Acción Democrática (A.D.) was having rough going at the hands of the general then in the presidency. One night Pérez Jiménez and a few other officers secretly sought out Betancourt. Said Pérez Jiménez: "Why don't you come along with us in a movement that would dignify the country and purify the armed forces?" Army and A.D. joined in a successful revolution that killed 300 and wounded...
Expendable is the word for the secretary general of Venezuela's Acción Democrática, the underground opposition to the dictatorship of Colonel Marco Pérez Jiménez. A.D.'s field commander, who directs espionage in government offices and keeps the government jumpy with incessant propaganda and occasional bombings, is hunted day and night, seldom sleeps twice in the same place. Within the last nine months, one A.D. chief was killed, another died in prison, and a third was jailed. Last week the fourth, a 35-year-old economist named Antonio Pinto Salinas...
Carnevali was the man most wanted by Pedro Estrada, the government's burly police boss. Since Estrada's cops killed Carnevali's predecessor, Leonardo Ruiz Pineda, on the streets of Caracas last October (TIME, Nov. 3), Carnevali has been the underground leader of Acción Democrática, the outlawed majority party. A governor and congressman in Acción Democrática's regime, Carnevali was jailed for ten months when the army took over in 1948, then exiled. He studied at Columbia University in Manhattan, later slipped back to Venezuela. Arrested again...
...Conspiracy to Vote. But why had the carefully staged election turned out to be such a grievous surprise to the junta? Information smuggled out through the censorship indicated that the fiasco was engineered deliberately by Alberto Carnevali, underground commander of Acción Democrática, the majority party which was booted from power and outlawed by the junta four years ago. Carnevali had kissed off the election as a hopeless farce. He had advised A.D. men to go to the polls, as the law requires, but cast blank ballots. But gradually, through A.D.-de-coded government telegrams, he deduced...
...trouble, the jumpy junta impetuously arrested the leaders and many members of the two "safe" political parties it has been allowing to campaign for the Nov. 30 elections. Then, without explanation, it freed them and blamed the uprisings (as it blames most of its troubles) on Acción Democrática, the big left-wing majority party the junta drove underground in 1948. The government promised that the election would come off as planned...