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...Serantes of Santiago specifically condemned government violence in a pastoral letter last month. Most of the priests in Oriente province openly sympathize with Rebel Leader Castro. In Venezuela the leading Catholic prelate, Caracas Archbishop Rafael Arias, dared to condemn the stern dictatorship of Marcos Perón Jimónez for the inequitable distribution of the country's great wealth...
...River (chief Columbia tributary), private power had planned two power-only dams at Pleasant Valley and Mountain Sheep. Though approved by former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, the plans were tentatively disapproved by an FPC study last month that favored a proposed $450 million multipurpose (power, flood control, irrigation) federal Nez Perce dam below the confluence of the Snake and Salmon Rivers. In addition. Interior Secretary Fred Seaton believes that the private plans may be too limited (TIME, Feb. 25), is studying an alternate multipurpose federal dam at Pleasant Valley...
With rigorous attention to protocol, the strongman Presidents of Venezuela and Colombia met one afternoon last week on the long, narrow steel bridge over the borderline Taáchira River. Venezuela's General Marcos Peérez Jimeénez brought along his wife, his top ministers and a band of military chiefs; Colombia's General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla was backed up by his wife and a similar party...
...Spree Waters. In Farmington, N.Mex., Paul Schoolboy Nez, a 65-year-old Navajo, was fined $20 after a state trooper testified that Nez was "drunk on horseback after dark, no lamps displayed; was thrown from horse to center of traffic lane where he went to sleep...
...nez is a man of strong likes and dislikes. He loves gardens and animals; he" detests noise, the letter G (in his poems he always uses J instead) and most modern Spanish-language poetry, especially the work of Chile's Communist-lining Pablo Neruda. His favorite poet, Jimenez once said, is God. Jimenez' own poetry is lyrical, impressionistic, polished, nonpolitical. Because of the translation barrier, he is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, but within it he is widely regarded as the language's greatest living poet...