Word: leonie
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem and bad art." Of civilization, power, and Caracas, "through another of our cities without a center, as hideous as Los Angeles, and with as many cars per head, and past the 20-foot neon sign for Coppertone on a Church. . .on to the White House of El Presidente Leoni, his small men with 18-inch repeating pistols. . .while we had champagne. . ." Lowell sees through to the surreal dimension, his own eye "sprouting bits of string gliding like dragonkites in the Chinese...
Outgoing President Raúl Leoni has cut so many ribbons inaugurating public works during the campaign that opponents claim he keeps a pair of scissors in his pocket. Leoni cannot constitutionally succeed himself, but his appearances aid Acción Democrática's candidate. He is Gonzalo Barrios, 65, an adroit and tough politician who, as Interior Minister, put down Venezuela's Castroite rebels...
Sensing that he might have trouble over oil with Venezuela's Raul Leoni, Johnson jumped into his Cadillac and went calling. He listened for 75 minutes as Leoni complained about how the U.S. program against air pollution might affect exports of Venezuelan oil because much of the oil is low-grade and has a high sulfur content, which is a prime pollutant. Johnson told Leoni that U.S. scientists were experimenting with refining methods that would reduce sulfur content and that any discoveries would be passed on to Venezuela. Back at Beaulieu, Johnson heard Peru's visionary Fernando Belaunde...
...same time, Leoni ordered the army's elite anti-guerrilla units to sweep the countryside. At the town of San José de Guaribe, 90 miles southeast of Caracas, an army patrol flushed a FALN force and killed a rebel leader known as Comandante Behuma, who only recently has returned from terrorist training in Cuba...
...rural areas, where the peasants have grown increasingly unsympathetic. FALN may also have hoped to attract new recruits to its ranks. From a strength of 500 full-time terrorists only three years ago, the organization can now count on fewer than 250 full-time gunslingers. By the time Leoni's drastic new cleanup campaign is over, the ranks will be thinner still...