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...journalist, university president, secretary-general of the Organization of American States and veteran of a previous tour as President (1945-46), Lleras got the National Front started by joining his Liberals with Laureano Gómez' Conservatives to aid a group of fed-up army officers bounce Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla on May 10, 1957. Now Lleras rules under a pact that splits the Cabinet, Congress and local offices fifty-fifty between the two parties...
...through Caracas slums last week while Red intellectuals addressed classrooms and civic clubs. Their aims: trebling party membership, raising a $150,000 fund to finance party newspapers, and running an intensive "educational, political and ideological campaign among the Venezuelan masses." At a round-table meeting in Caracas, Communist Boss Gustavo Machado sat down cheerily with the leaders of Venezuela's four other parties. His aim: to get an important hand in naming a single unity candidate for President in the November election. Pouring into the political vacuum left by the January overthrow of Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, Venezuela...
Oddly enough, Dictator Perez Jimenez gave the Communists their head start. He chased the leaders of the three major political parties into exile, shot or tortured many of their lieutenants, smashed their organizations. But he only pretended to persecute Communists. He exiled wealthy, suave Gustavo Machado, boss of one of the party's factions, but permitted others to stay in business. Reds continued to dominate the Waiters, Bartenders and Hotel Employees Union; in return, many of its members spied for the dictatorship. So long as they collaborated, the Communists were free to spread their influence; when Perez Jimenez fell...
...Nixon pondered, Communist Student Leader Gustavo Valcarcel and about 2,000 party-line followers were boldly trying to slam shut the school's main gates, only to be foiled by a disapproving majority of the students. Valcaárcel redeployed his hot-eyed troops, in the street, barring entrance to San Marcos, and waited...
Diehard military men, bent on short-circuiting the sure election of Civilian Alberto Lleras Camargo as bipartisan President of Colombia, brazenly kidnaped five top Colombians last week. The victims: four of the five joint presidents who make up the military junta that dumped Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last May-and Candidate Lleras himself...