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Married. Viviana Munoz Mendoza, 18, daughter of Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munoz Marin (TIME, June 23) ; and Louis Timm Diaz, 24, who, with his bride, is a student at the University of Puerto Rico; in San Juan...
Opposition Candidate Luis Héctor Alvarez of the right-wing National Action Party (P.A.N.) has campaigned earnestly for cleaner government-and got nowhere. He has been heckled in the hinterlands and relegated to newspaper back pages. As for the Communist Party candidate, an ancient lawyer named Miguel Mendoza López, few Mexicans even knew where he was last week. The campaign has been historically quiet; only one P.A.N. worker has been killed...
...international movement. The three military members of the junta, led by Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, gave the Reds free rein on the idealistic theory that checking them would be undemocratic. But after Nixon's life was endangered by Red-led mobs, the junta's two civilians, Eugenio Mendoza and Bias Lamberti, resigned in protest over the easy treatment of Communists...
This week in Venezuela, in the wake of the Red-led anti-Nixon riots, Communism turned into a full-blown political issue. Reflecting the outrage of the Roman Catholic Church and other conservative factions, the two civilian members of the ruling junta -Industrialist Eugenio Mendoza and Civil Engineer Bias Lamberti -demanded enforcement of Venezuela's anti-Red law to curb the burgeoning Communist Party. The three military members, reflecting the unrealistic tolerance of all major politicians, refused. Mendoza and Lamberti quit, bringing on a tense political crisis...
Before it could even begin to function, the all-military junta brought down a storm of protest from civilian rebels fearful of a new military dictatorship. Larrazabal named two civilian members, Top Industrialist Eugenic Mendoza and onetime University Professor Bias Lamberti. To reassure the civilians even further, Larrazabal then named a 13-man Cabinet with only one military member: Air Force Colonel Jesús Maria Castro LeÓn, a leader of the original anti-Pérez Jiménez plot. The civilians and some members of the armed forces were still displeased. Two junta colonels, they protested...