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...notably Venezuela's and Peru's), the Salvadoran bosses kept their promise. This week, in its first democratic election in almost 20 years, the tiny republic voted for a new President and Congress. Though final results might not be known for a month, short, fat Major Oscar Osorio, 39, was almost certain to win the presidency. Osorio's middle-of-the-road Partido Revolucionario de Unificación Democrática (PRUD) was likely to gain most of the congressional seats...
...shifted to diplomatic means. The new approach involved cooing noises aimed toward Honduras and El Salvador. Inspired newspaper stories spoke hopefully of future meetings between Arevalo and Honduras' new President Juan Manuel Gálvez, between Arévalo and the Salvadorean junta's Major Oscar Osorio. Guatemalan student delegations were hustled off to both countries to spread good will. Noting slight leftward turns by both governments, Arévalo exulted: "I don't have to paddle, I'm going downstream...
...matter of hard fact, both Osorio and Gálvez probably preferred hard-boiled Somoza to "Spiritual Socialist" Arévalo. But both were enjoying governmental honeymoons ("Glory to God in Heaven and Gálvez in Honduras!" burbled a Tegucigalpa poster), and both were playing it cagey. They proclaimed their respective countries friendly to Guatemala "as to all nations," pleaded ignorance of any plans to meet Arévalo, and let it go at that...
...State of Pernambuco, freedom-loving Brazilian editors were finding the row of democracy hard to hoe. Items: The Journal Pequeno's outspoken editor, Osorio Borba. was caught in the net of Brazil's hated Security Tribunal; Editor Annibal Fernandes of the Diario de Per nambuco was waylaid by a goon squad...
...Goya's brilliant Don Manuel Osorio de Zuniga, stylistically the most modern, of all the Bache pictures, and one of the world's most popular paintings. (Value: an estimated...