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...Sunday afternoon, army defectors distributed four truckloads of weapons among rebels in the Ciudad Nueva, a low-cost housing area in the city's southeast: bazookas, .50-cal. machine guns, automatic rifles. Pro-Bosch rebels numbering about 2,000 to 4,000 began waging an urban guerrilla war, making forays into the business district, thus paralyzing the city. Rebel mobs sacked the new Pepsi-Cola plant, set fire to the offices of a pro-Reid newspaper, destroyed Reid's auto agency...
...libre to liberate the city. The army garrison at San Cristóbal rallied to his side; the navy joined in, lobbed 3-in. shells at the palace. Air force planes made repeated strafing runs. Then across the river rumbled the tanks, firing almost point-blank into rebel Ciudad Nueva...
...tragic fact was that no one seemed to be in real command any more?not Bosch's people, not the remaining army rebels, not the Communists. At one rebel headquarters in the Ciudad Nueva, a group of young rebels pleadingly told TIME's reporters: "We are not Communists. We are active antiCommunists. We are fighting for the constitution, for Bosch. When the constitution is restored, we will keep the Communists out. We can handle them." Very possibly those youngsters genuinely thought that they were fighting for democracy. But before anyone could talk rationally about restoring anything...
...accomplishment. In the 31 years since he graduated from New York University Law School, London-born Roy Chalk has built up a tidy real estate and transportation empire. This week he launches a publishing chain. Last March Chalk paid $850,000 for an 80% interest in El Diario de Nueva York (circ. 68,000), the largest Spanish newspaper in a city that now has 650,000 Puerto Rican inhabitants. This week he takes over the city's only other Spanish daily, La Prensa (circ. 33,000). To house them he is set to buy the Lower Manhattan building...
...anti-Semitism!" he wrote a friend. "It is the reason for the abrupt break with my sister." And to another: "I will not be associated with anybody who has any part in this lying race-swindle." Elisabeth married Forster and went off with him to Paraguay to start a "Nueva Germania" of 100% blue-eyed, red-bearded Teutons. The colony flopped. Forster committed suicide, and Elisabeth bounced back to Europe just in time to take care of Friedrich. who had suddenly and finally collapsed...