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...Exactly 13½ hours after the DC-6 touchdown at Mount Pocono, a young American walked onto the 19th floor of a commercial office building in downtown Bogota and pumped three hollow-point bullets into Octavio González, 38, chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Colombia. González slumped to the floor dead. The gunman quickly reloaded and, while secretaries scattered, fired several more shots before putting the revolver to his head and killing himself...
...surreal stew for Octavio...
...stunning defeat for the Communists. Eanes, the tough, austere army chief of staff who put down a leftist military uprising last November, won 61.5% of the vote, trouncing far-left candidate Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (16.5%), seriously ailing Premier Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo (14.4%) and the Communist standard-bearer Octavio Pato (7.6%). Although Eanes' victory was less a personal triumph than a vote of confidence in the three non-Communist parties that backed him-the Socialists, Popular Democrats and conservative Center Social Democrats-the general is expected to wield his new authority forcefully...
...current Premier, Admiral Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo-who is not backed by any political party but is counting on his personality to put him across-is favored by 14% of the voters; ultra-leftist Army Major Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho should get 11 % of the vote. The Communist candidate, Octavio Pato, the party's No. 2 man and considered more acceptable than Stalinist Party Boss Alvaro Cunhal, trails with a mere 3%. If Eanes does not get an absolute majority, he will then face a runoff election, probably with Pinheiro de Azevedo-a contest that everyone expects the former...
Even today, party members are reluctant to discuss their underground activities. "After all," says Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal, 61, "we may have to go back underground some day." His deputy, Octavio Pato, claims that good organization has at least partly been the answer: "There were big cells and small cells, a structure that was relatively centralized. The overwhelming majority of the Central Committee was inside Portugal, and that is one of the reasons the party managed to survive." Indeed, according to António Dias Lourenço, editor of the Communist weekly Avante, the party emerged from hiding with...