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...automobiles. Recognizing three of his own regimental officers, he waved the cars inside the gate. But the cars also carried a score of workers from Lisbon's suburb of Almada, and such sworn foes of the Salazar regime as ex-Army Captain João Varela Gomes and Manuel Serra, former head of the Catholic youth movement...
SHADING their eyes against the sun, two men talked in the empty schoolyard in the crossroads village of San Manuel, Chile, 60 miles south of Santiago. In the distance loomed the snowcapped Andes; near by, a quacking duck led five grey ducklings in and out of an irrigation ditch. "We had a community meeting last night." said Sandoval Córdoba, the school's headmaster. "It went better than last time. Six men are going to build the chicken house. Five others are interested in the brooder." Replied Emory Tomor, 24, of Reseda, Calif., a member...
...high school French and German instructor back home in California, Tomor now spends his weekdays teaching carpentry to 50 boys at the Institute De Educación in Malloco. Chile. On weekends, he boards a wheezing bus and rides 30 miles to San Manuel, where 70 peasant families work a landowner's 12,000-acre hacienda, in their off-hours tend their own tiny holdings. Tomor is trying to help the campesinos raise poultry. He has shown them how to build a chicken house of wire, wood and burlap and a brooder of wood slats, wire...
...what to do about him? The U.S. has long ceased to talk about overthrowing him. Notions of staging another invasion by Cuban exiles have been shelved" supplies promised the shattered anti-Castro underground inside Cuba have been deliberately withheld, and exiled Underground Leader Manuel Ray has taken an economic development job in Puerto Rico. The U.S. now pins its hopes on a Colombian plan to ostracize and quarantine Castro through joint action of the 21 nation Organization of American States. Under the Colombian plan, an OAS convened conference of hemisphere foreign ministers would be held to "consider threats...
...Trujillos flew out of Ciudad Trujillo, two principal opposition leaders-the National Civic Union's Viriato Fiallo and the 14th of June's Manuel Tavárez-flew in from San Juan. They found the road from airport to city a sea of celebrators, flinging flowers, weeping, clapping hands, tooting whistles. At the bridge that forms the main entrance to the city, more than 100,000 people joyfully stopped the caravan...