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General Marcos Perez Jimenez, 44, the plump, well-manicured ex-dictator of Venezuela, got a rude order last week from the U.S. Immigration Service: get out of the country by April 15. Perez Jimenez has been living in a $300,000 mansion in Florida on a temporary visa and a diplomatic passport given him, in a show of chivalry, by the revolutionary junta that bounced him from office 15 months...
...relations with the new, democratically elected Venezuelan government, which accuses him of looting and terrorizing the country. The State Department said that it had "conferred" with the Immigration Service on the expulsion order and agreed that it "is in accord with the best interests of the U.S." Perez Jimenez' Miami lawyer predicted that he could keep his client in the U.S. "for at least two or three years" before all legal devices are exhausted...
...problems officially become President Romulo Betancourt's problems this week. Before a skeleton crew of delegates from overseas-held down at the economy-minded President-elect's own request, he will get into the ceremonial sash and inherit the headaches left by ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez...
...works. Schools must be built for 600,000 children now crowded out. Hospitals are needed; Betancourt says: "We should never again witness the spectacle of two women ready to give birth occupying one single bed." At first Betancourt will be pinched for funds for the reconstruction job. Dictator Perez Jimenez left short-term debts of $1.4 billion, and half of them still remain to be paid...
...give us the vista gorda"-ihe blank, unseeing eye. Nor do the police play favorites. Three Dade County deputy sheriffs junket down to Batista's Cuba, come home bragging openly that "it didn't cost a cent; we got the red-carpet treatment." Marcos Pérez Jimenez, former dictator of Venezuela, gains the gratitude of Miami Beach policemen by hiring them at fat fees to spend off-duty hours watching his $315,000 home...