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...outside world was not afraid to speak. All over Italy, Catholic Action organized protest meetings; in Milan, 5,000 Catholics fought bitterly with Communist strong-arm squads which tried to break up their meeting. In Italy's National Assembly, Interior Minister Mario Scelba announced that the government had sent a message of "fraternal solidarity" to Hungarian Catholics. Communist deputies screamed defiance...
...MARIO J. ARIAS...
Into this situation strode Mario Vargas. He was plump, but with the telltale flush still on his cheeks. He argued with his officer friends for compromise. "Things have changed," he was told. Vargas decided to go along with them. Then tanks rumbled down Caracas' narrow, hilly streets, truckfuls of steel-helmeted soldiers screeched up before Miraflores. In a matter of 30 minutes, troops had occupied every important building and intersection in the city...
...weeks, tension mounted and rumors grew. Venezuelans began to pray that handsome, tuberculous Lieut. Colonel Mario Vargas would return from his Saranac Lake, N.Y. sickbed. The army liked Vargas. He was also a close friend of both Gallegos and Betancourt. Vargas, people said, would straighten things...
...laughed at this old joke last week. But buxom, 19-year-old Annamarie Proietti was too angry to smile. Annamarie is a waitress from Rome's Communist-filled slums who last week slipped off to swarming, breezy Ostia for an afternoon on the beach with her boy friend Mario. "We were lying there in the sun talking," she told a reporter later, "when somebody tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Where do you think you are -in your bedroom?' There, leaning over us, was an ugly, sweating flatfoot with a big mustache. 'Beat...