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Outside, in the Plaza Murillo, where last July a mob lynched Dictator Villarroel, the news rapidly drew a crowd that swelled to 80,000. They seized Oblitas as police questioned him, propelled him across the square to a lamppost. There, while President Gutierrez shouted from his balcony, "My life is unimportant," they shot, then hanged Oblitas...
...spontaneous had been last month's uprising, that not until hours after President Gualberto Villarroel's body swung from its lamppost had revolutionists gathered to form a representative junta. To the junta and to outsiders from Buenos Aires to Washington, the victory parade was one bit of evidence among many that both revolution and junta had popular support. But no one, either in Bolivia or abroad, seemed to know in what direction the new Government would...
Tossed into the Bolivian broth last fortnight was white-haired, sexagenarian Judge Tomás Monje Gutierrez, a political moderate who took over as President of the junta. From a window of the presidential palace that overlooked the Villarroel lamppost, he delivered his inaugural speech. Said he, "Whenever you people get tired of me, let me know so that I can go away." Apparently he meant what he said. Last week the junta decreed national elections next January for a permanent President and congress...
Bolivians had cut down from a La Paz lamppost the blood-smeared body of President Gualberto Villarroel (TIME, July 29). But in Buenos Aires the Bolivian coup had loosed anti-Peron wisecracks. One of them: "I'm waiting for L-day"-"What's that?"-"Lamppost day." And not only wisecracks. In the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, oppositionist Deputy Ernesto San Martino predicted: "The masses never forgive spurious politicians nor false leaders nor a clay idol...
Dates often include an evening of study in the library as well as a lingering moment in the shadows by the arches of Eaton Chapel (unless the lady is a "pot" -"a girl you might just as well neck with a lamppost...