Word: montenegro
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...home for the weekend after all, Scott caught the next jet to Lima, Peru, which promised the best connection into Bolivia's capital of La Paz. While he was in the air, the Bolivian situation was indeed coming apart, and TIME'S stringer there, Walter Montenegro, who had gone back to his native country in the past year after twelve years on the staff of LIFE EN ESPANOL in New York, was dodging rifle fire to keep New York informed of the coup in progress...
After he got the exiled President's side of the story, Scott's next aim was to get to La Paz to join forces with Montenegro. Following a considerable delay because all flights had been canceled, Scott finally touched down at the 13,358-ft.-high airport in La Paz, his 18th landing there in the last 18 months. Before long he was talking with the new head of the government, General Rene Barrientos, who had once jokingly told Scott: "If you come here much more often, we're going to nationalize you." Scott found Barrientos uncertain...
Mama's Children. The two leaders did just about everything else, as they ranged the country from quake-shattered Skoplje to wild Montenegro, where after a picnic the mountainfolk broke into the kolo, a fiery, foot-stamping circle dance. Khrushchev and his stolid wife Nina, and Tito and his statuesque spouse Jovanka, broke into the ring, swirling around with the pretty girls and peasants...
...Moscow, in its newly toughened attitude towards ideological dissension in the satellites, was dropping hints with the subtlety of a trip hammer that it might cancel a promised $175 million Soviet credit for construction of an aluminum plant in Tito's Montenegro on the ground that Tito was also taking money from the U.S. This led Belgrade's party newspaper Borba to suggest that the Soviet Union "believes that it alone has the right to do business with the U.S.," and that it is now Moscow, not Washington, that puts strings on economic...
...political heir of the assassinated Carlos Castillo Armas, Cruz Salazar controlled Congress, which has the legal power to break an election stalemate by choosing between the two front runners. Unofficial election totals put Ydigoras well ahead with 41% of the vote, left Cruz Salazar and Mario Méndez Montenegro of the liberal Revolutionary Party in a tight race for second place...