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Under the watching eyes of Manila police, Taruc strode to the office of President Elpidio Quirino in Malacanan Palace, thrust out his hand to Constabulary General Mariano Castaneda, whose main job for two years has been to hunt Taruc. Castaneda ignored the hand, frisked the man. Taruc carried no weapons (though the seven-man bodyguard he brought along yielded, among other items, nine pistols, two submachine guns and two crowbars). Later, having pledged his loyalty and cooperation to the government and watched President Quirino sign the amnesty, Taruc seized the constabulary chief's hand and pumped it vigorously...
Widow's Might. In a cream-colored stucco house in suburban Teusaquillo, things had changed, too. There, beside the bier of her murdered husband, Senora Amparo Jaramillo de Gaitan, 35, sat with her daughter Gloria, 10. For days she refused to permit his burial unless Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez first resigned. Even if she relented, the wobbly government could hardly risk a huge public funeral. Finally Dario Echandia, Liberal leader in Ospina's new cabinet, arranged a solution that Senora de Gaitan accepted: a private funeral this week at Gaitan's home, with burial...
Thin-lipped Rightist Gómez, Foreign Minister, president of the conference and backbone of the government of gentle President Mariano Ospina Pérez, was not there. But the rioters poured in anyhow. They threw typewriters out of windows, splintered furniture, tore up records...
...Daveron and the R.D.C. agents in Rio had a difference of opinion. Daveron wanted to push west through the plains of Bolivia, then north to the rubber country. The R.D.C. preferred the route that followed the old telegraph line strung diagonally across the great Brazilian plateau by General Candido Mariano Rondon, a famed Indianologist. Neither side budged. So the R.D.C., despairing of the mules project, sold most of the beasts...
...Liberals lost. Mariano Ospina Perez, the Conservative candidate, won. Gaitan ran third. But he polled a stupendous vote (about 358,957), mostly in the cities where the workers liked his brand of rabble-rousing. In Bogota, Colombia's capital, which calls itself the South American Athens, and in the ports of Cartagena and Barranquilla (but not in Medellin -see below), Gaitan received more votes than Ospina and Turbay together...