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...possible," the memory of Pérez Jiménez' persecution left Venezuela's long-harassed politicians still a bit gun-shy. In exile in New York, a joint "Great Civic Front" was tentatively pieced together by Venezuela's three foremost political leaders: Rómulo Betancourt, 49, president of a semimilitary government from 1945 to 1948 and head of the left-wing Democratic Action Party; Rafael Caldera, 41, leader of the Copei (Christian Social) Party; and Jóvito Villalba, 49, head of the middle-of-the-road Republican Democrat ic Union. Together, the three politicians...
...Venezuelan Dictator-President Marcos Pérez Jiménez scrambled desperately to snatch back some of his waning authority and prestige. Last week he broke up a new plot masterminded by his longtime chief of staff. General Rómulo Fernández. 45, and hustled the general off to exile. At the same time, he partially reversed the humiliating Cabinet shuffle forced on him when his fortunes were at low ebb a fortnight ago (TIME...
...less resentful was a politico named Rómulo Betancourt, whose left-wing but anti-Communist party, Acción Democrática (A.D.) was having rough going at the hands of the general then in the presidency. One night Pérez Jiménez and a few other officers secretly sought out Betancourt. Said Pérez Jiménez: "Why don't you come along with us in a movement that would dignify the country and purify the armed forces?" Army and A.D. joined in a successful revolution that killed 300 and wounded...
...army revolt, as his War Minister. Under Betancourt, A.D. wrote a constitution that guaranteed every civil right the party could think of. A.D. encouraged unions. It gave Venezuela its first free and universal presidential election, with the party's candidate, Novelist (Doña Barbara) Rómulo Gallegos, winning three to one. Most important, A.D. worked out and ratified the historic 50-50 contract with the oil companies-the golden rule that was later to benefit no one more than the officer Betancourt assigned as army chief of staff: Marcos...
Last month a British orange farmer caught two Nguru tribesmen stripping his trees. In a scuffle with police, one Nguru was killed. The violence spread. In Mala-mulo, the American Seventh-Day Adventist mission, with 200 leper patients in its hospital, was besieged by jeering tribesmen. Bands of Ngurus roamed the green countryside, chopping down telephone poles, blocking roads, stoning whites' cars. One British teagrower was seized, forced to stand still while Ngurus sharpened their pangas on the soles of his shoes and made mock passes through his hair with the knives...