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...Heads, One Mind (THE HEMISPHERE)-The two heads are those of Alfredo Ovando Candia and Rene Barrientos, and the one mind-running Bolivia-still appears to be that of Barrientos...
...gold braid, army olive and air-force blue swept silently out of the President's office, down one flight of stairs, and swirled around a small table bearing a crucifix. There, as his colleagues looked on, Air Force General Rene Barrientos solemnly swore in Army General Alfredo Ovando Candia as his co-President of Bolivia's ruling junta. Ovando, Barrientos dryly observed, came "from the very entrails of the army" and was a man worthy of his new position. Replied Ovando: "There will not be two Presidents, but one will to serve the country...
...support he has in the La Paz capital is questionable. His incessant speechifying raises the hackles of some of his fellow generals who fear that he has ambitions to become a Bolivian dictator. Last week army brass were privately demanding that Barrientos share the junta leadership with General Alfredo Ovando Candia, his second-in-command...
Realizing that he lacked the support to hang on, Paz decided to flee, leaving General Alfredo Ovando Candia, 46, commander in chief of the armed forces, to pick up the pieces. For 24 hours anti-government rioters surged through La Paz, looting, burning and sniping at army troops sent to keep order. Before it was over, 45 were killed, 160 wounded. Out of hiding came Leftist Juan Lechin, 51, Paz's archrival and boss of most of the country's 35,000 tin miners. Adding to the chaos, his miners demanded the re-establishment of union control...