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Revealing the side of Cuba that Castro's ad-signing supporters do not seem to see, the Cuban Ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, Andres Vargas Gomez, quit his post last week charging that the government is "totalitarian and Communistoriented." And Commentator Luis Conte Aguero, whose Cuban TV rating was once up to Paar, fled to U.S. exile because, he said, Castro is now a "prisoner of pro-Communists." Inmates in Havana's filthy Principe Prison rioted twice, setting fire to bedding, and relatives of political prisoners in La Cabana Fortress learned that 30 Castro gunslingers...
...Buenos Aires last week, the elected President, Arturo Frondizi. managed to cling to his job through just one curious advantage: his Vice President, Alejandro Gomez, had already been sacked in another crisis ten months before, and Argentina's rebellious military could find no constitutional successor to take over Frondizi's post. Dealing from new strength gained by open revolt (TIME, Sept. 14), the army began purging all pro-Frondizi officers from key positions of command. It was, in a word, a typical week...
...miles east of Atlantic City, most of Santa Rosa's 247 passengers lay asleep. In the bow, on lookout duty, Seaman Armando Gomez, 36, sighted the southbound tanker Valchem. "I heard her whistle a point and a half off the starboard bow," recalls Gomez, "and I reported it by telephone to the bridge. The second mate answered and said O.K. and blew our whistle." Ten minutes later, Gomez saw the tanker's lights ahead and off to the right, again reported to the bridge. Again the mate sounded the whistle. Then, says Gomez, "all of a sudden, within...
Unruly Veep. Another crisis was still to come. Under the impression that Frondizi's troubles made him ripe for ousting, a group of his political enemies attempted a coup. For their front man they chose Vice President Gomez. Gomez went to Frondizi, told him that unless he stepped down and allowed Gomez to step up as head of a coalition government, blood would be shed. Frondizi quickly checked with his army chiefs, found no sign of dissension, then faced Gomez. Outmaneuvered, Gomez backed off. later claimed that it was "all a tremendous mistake" and that...
Despite his protestations of innocence, a gang of Frondizi supporters invaded Gomez' office next day. wrecked furniture, destroyed papers and ordered Gomez to resign. At week's end he put his resignation in Frondizi's hands, and the national oil union decided to postpone its strike threat. Frondizi was still on top. He had lost his dubious Peronista support, and the Mendoza oilworkers were still on strike, but he had gained the prestige of demonstrated firmness...