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Easier in the Afternoon. Reform did not come naturally to President Carlos Garcia. When he took over after the death of able, incorruptible Ramon Magsaysay in 1957, Garcia's regime became conspicuous chiefly for its influence peddling, nepotism and economic mismanagement. Last fall, after losing off-year senatorial elections in the cities even though his Nacionalistas bought a majority in the countryside, Garcia awoke to the fact that government corruption had been the major popular issue against him, shrewdly concluded that he had better change his party's ways before the 1961 presidential elections. "Nothing less than...
General Valentin Garcia is a cherished legend to the inhabitants of the Venezuelan state of Sucre. He fought in six great battles of the war of liberation from Spain, and once saved the life of General Simon Bolivar, who thereupon dubbed Garcia "Valentin Valiente" (Valentin the Brave). When Garcia died in 1856, he was buried in the parish cemetery of the town of Cumana. But until last week, Valentin the Brave, much as he was honored in Sucre,* never won a similar reverence from the rest of Venezuela...
True, in 1909 a resolution of the federal Senate pronounced Garcia an "Illustrious Hero of the War of Independence" and decreed that his remains be transferred from the cemetery to the Pantheon of Heroes in Caracas, resting place of Bolivar and the rest of Venezuela's great. In preparation, the people of Cumana put the bones in a small, carved mahogany urn. But it took five years for officials in Caracas to dispatch the warship Miranda to Cumana to get the urn, and then the Miranda was diverted instead to another part of the country to quell a rebellion...
...found intact. Delfin Rojas, the church sexton, made it his special business to guard the urn while the church was rebuilt, and still preserves it carefully in a belltower storage room, among tattered and dusty saints and icons. Last week Interior Minister Luis Augusto Dubuc promised Sucre that General Garcia's remains this year will at last find their ultimate resting place in the Pantheon, as Venezuela marks the 150th anniversary of its independence...
...President Garcia has at last awakened to the fact that good government is the best politics," said the Manila Times. "Personally, I want to retire from politics," said Garcia last week, "but my personal interests are subordinate to the national interest." He obviously also thought that there would be little national interest in him unless he and the government reformed...