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Preaching at a thanksgiving Mass in Montevideo for the survivors and their families, a Roman Catholic priest, Father Eduardo Rodríguez said: "What happens to them will depend on us now, and on the love and understanding that we are capable of giving them." As a Chilean paper asked rhetorically in the headline of one story about the incident: WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE...
...1950s). Recently he called for free elections next June that would bring an end to his two-year dictatorship. But one night last week, the Ecuadorian army quietly deposed Velasco and sent him into exile, replacing him with a junta headed by General Guillermo Rodríguez Lara...
...LUIS RODRÍGUEZ VILLANCAÑAS Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
...First order of business was the election of Venezuela's Ambassador Carlos Sosa Rodríguez, 51, to the presidency of the Assembly. Approved by a vote of 99 nations (eleven abstained and Nepal arrived too late to cast a ballot), the trim, businesslike lawyer-accountant accepted the gavel from Pakistan's bearded Zafrulla Khan. Then, in Spanish (he is also fluent in French and English), Sosa Rodriguez introduced himself as "a son of the native land...
Sosa Rodríguez is just that. A great-great-granduncle on his father's side signed Venezuela's preliminary declaration of independence in 1810. Sosa Rodríguez was ambassador in London when Marcos Pérez Jiménez made himself President in 1952. He went into self-exile, returned when Dictator Pérez Jiménez was overthrown, and since 1958 has been Venezuela's permanent representative...