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...students, particularly in Roman Catholic schools, where resentment ran high against the jailing, ever since September, of Rafael Caldera, once the Christian Socialist presidential hopeful. But after a spate of student demonstrations a fortnight ago, most colleges are temporarily closed. "The agitators can only stir up students," said Pedro Estrada, chief of the Seguridad Nacional. "They cannot stir up the workers, because everyone is making so much money...
...bloc of other PAR deputies, embarrassed at what they called Pace's "indiscretion," hastily removed him from the party's secretary-generalship. In his place they named Julio Estrada de la Hoz, a member of Guatemala's U.N. delegation. But Estrada de la Hoz, in the judgment of most Guatemalan political observers, is well to the left of Paco Fernandez...
...courtroom, spectators burst into loud applause. Court President Castro Estrada dutifully admonished Justice Corona; the case went on. But newspapers played up the judge's remarks, and popular comment seemed heavily in his favor...
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...
Last week, not long after Caracas' brief dusk, Ruiz Pineda, now 36, was riding in a green Chevrolet through an area of garages, bars and small factories on the city's southern edge. Somehow, Pedro Estrada's men had been tipped off about Ruiz Pineda's route. Two police agents on a motorcycle picked up the Chevrolet. The car stopped and Ruiz Pineda and three others jumped out. The fleeing men and the police exchanged half a dozen shots. One man fell. By the time a crowd had gathered, Ruiz Pineda, his luck...