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...other Latin American countries. In Peru, 2,000 government troops have been chasing 1,300 guerrillas through the highlands for six months. In Colombia, Castro's man is Pedro Antonio Marin, 35, a bandit-turned-Communist who leads 100 guerrillas responsible for dozens of rural murders. In Guatemala, Marco Antonio Yon Sosa, 34, a onetime army lieutenant with U.S. training, leads a 150-man band that recently bushwhacked an army patrol, killing two soldiers...
...siege of backlands banditry, President Guillermo Leon Valencia's biggest headache is "Sure Shot" Pedro Antonio Marin, 35, who leads some 100 guerrillas and killed 17 people on one recent backlands raid. Another 150 guerrillas are operating in the Guatemala countryside, the most important group led by Marco Antonio Yon Sosa, 34, a onetime army lieutenant who graduated from the U.S. Army counterinsurgency school in Panama before deciding to go left. In Peru, bands totaling 1,300 guerrillas are operating high in the Andes, so far have killed 22 troops while eluding pursuing government forces...
...Panamanian was more pleased with Johnson's attitude than President Marco Robles. Taking office nine months after the bloody January 1964 riots, Robles put a damper on fiery nationalists, sought a reasonable solution with the U.S. over the canal crisis. An honest and decisive administrator, he has pushed through a much-needed tax reform, has brought new stability and order to Panama. This week he must deliver his state-of-the-nation address to the Panamanian National Assembly. He can report that his reasonable approach has accomplished far more for Panama than all the hotheads ever have...
Could be, and the substitute Thursday night was no farther away than a flick of the dial, where Sinatra was competing with himself as Major Marco in The Manchurian Candidate. Beside CBS's Thursday Night Movies, there is also NBC's Tuesday Night at the Movies and Saturday Night at the Movies and ABC's Sunday Night Movie. Since the three networks, now locked in a furious three-way ratings tie, can't begin yanking shows for 13 weeks, and significant ratings will not emerge before late November, these may provide the only safe haven...
Forge of the Angels. Felled by a heart attack in 1948 and forced to eke out a living, Costantini set up a shop, like many of those lining the Piazza San Marco, selling the gaudy souvenirs that today pass for Venetian glass. "I suffered," he says. No one needed to remind him that Murano, an island in the Venetian Lagoon still crowded with furnaces, had once been the capital of the glassmaking world. The problem was to restore art to the craft, and Costantini decided to persuade contemporary artists to supply designs for the glassmakers left on Murano...