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...that has killed 200,000 Colombians in the past decade. In the week before inauguration day, two soldiers and 41 bandits died in battle. Lleras in his inaugural speech promised "vigorous pacification." He will have the help of the army, which has served as faithful caretaker, through a five-man junta, since Rojas Pinilla's ouster...
...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." But the politicians' deeds are less impressive. Machado's presence at the president-picking session, for example, was a Popular Front at work...
Balletomanes. In Brunswick, N.C., all 42 registered male voters in the town stood for election to the five-man town council...
...ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez last January are Venezuela's Communists. Operating freely since the revolt, they showed their power by leading the spit-and-stone attacks on Vice President Nixon. Last week, in the embarrassed aftermath of the riot, Venezuela's leftward skid split the ruling five-man junta-but left the Reds uncurbed...
...emergency phone call to Washington told President Eisenhower of the Nixons' plight. Deeply concerned, the President ordered a military rescue operation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But before the troops were on the way, Venezuela's five-man junta had ringed the residence with 400 soldiers. Mobs were still roaming the streets, and the Nixons were virtual prisoners in the residence...