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...businessman puts it another way. "This place is in no sense the old-style jack-booted dictatorship. I've worked in Venezuela during the time of Perez Jimenez, in the Dominican Republic under Trujillo, in Argentina under Peron. There is no atmosphere of tension and fear. The idea is order, to build something." That is how Stroessner sees himself-as Paraguay's builder. His term expires in 1968, and constitutionally he is barred from running again. But in Stroessner's Paraguay, the builder can always reconstruct a constitution...
...Raul Leoni, 57, the shrewd, dour president of Betancourt's Accion Democrdtica party. A founder of A.D., Leoni served as Venezuela's Labor Minister while Be tancourt was provisional President from 1945 to 1948, later took over the party leadership in 1958 when Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez was overthrown and Betancourt elected President. Leoni campaigned on a promise to continue Betancourt's successful economic and social reforms. But he lacks Betancourt's flair and almost hypnotic hold on back-country campesinos; squabbles within A.D. also worked against him. As a result, Leoni and A.D. won only...
...students' self-confidence has been strengthened by political events since the war. In that period, two dictators have been overthrown, Gomez in 1945 and Perez Jimenez in 1958, both by revolutionary movements that began at the university...
...time lived high off the fat of his former land after his ouster in 1958. Alas, for two months now, the suety onetime strongman has been sweating it out in a Florida jail, while his lawyers try to arrange bail on extradition charges. On a low-fat prison diet, Jimenez has lost 16 lbs. and is down to 166 lbs. "If you ever find yourself gaining weight after you get out," said a sympathetic jailer, "feel free to come back here for your meals...
fter a spark of spring excitement. were back to the dreary form. The of the spring phenoms--this year it the A's Manny Jimenez--dropped 400 in his B.A.; Mickey Mantle and Maris moved into gear--Mantle three homeruns in Sunday's doubleder against Washington; and the bounced Cleveland out of first to the only possible question...