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...soldiers are having trouble with the Castroite FALN guerrillas, who have now spread into eight of the country's 20 states. Last year the Castroites were content to play hide-and-seek with the army. Now they are growing bolder, recently ambushed an army patrol near the Maracaibo oilfields, killing three soldiers and wounding...
...Cuervo de Prieto, 35, Venezuelan housewife who in September 1963 gave birth to Latin America's second set of surviving quintuplets; and Efrén Lubín Prieto, 39, worker for Creole Petroleum Corp.: twin girls, their eighth and ninth daughters, 21st and 22nd children; in Maracaibo, Venezuela...
...live with. In point of fact, they live rather well-thanks to Big Daddy Creole Petroleum Corp., for which Papacito Efrén Lubín Prieto, 39, works as a $10-a-day oilfield hand. Creole built for the family a $30,000 five-bedroom house in Maracaibo, also provides free medical care, while advertising contracts with Gerber and Klim give meat and milk. The big problem is telling them apart, though their mother insists that this is no problem at all. "Otto is the lovingest," she says. "Juan José has the shortest fuse. Robinson...
...least once a week privately in his office, presides at a regular weekly full-dress Cabinet meeting. He pays careful attention to Venezuela's sensitive military. And he still finds time for the public ribbon-snipping that Betancourt found so useful. Last month, on a trip to Maracaibo, Leoni dedicated a new teachers col lege, the first section of a 1,000-home housing project, a new tumor-study center at Zulia University Hospital, and a new radio-TV relay station-all in only two hours before a luncheon date...
ACCION'S philosophy, as one leader puts it, is "not to give people alms, but to give them confidence in their own ability." At the Canada Honda slum in Maracaibo, residents organized by ACCION volunteers recently pitched in to build a community center, proudly naming it Nuestro Esfuerzo (Our Effort). Two years ago at the notorious Barrio la Linea outside Caracas, Communists sabotaged their projects and intimidated residents, but a new sense of community pride won out. One Communist leader is now a regular volunteer worker...