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...whore!" As police held back the crowd of 3,000, the armored van carrying Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 50, from his jail cell pulled up in front of Caracas' Supreme Court building. It had been more than seven years since the pudgy strongman was overthrown, and last week, after well-heeled exile in the U.S. and 19 not-too-austere months in Venezuelan prisons, Pérez Jiménez was finally being brought to trial...
Nakasa also feels that the South African government, backed by American business, is too strong to be overthrown. "What happens in South Africa will be determined by power, not by who's right or wrong." He feels, black South Africans are not really preparing for revolution; they want reforms, not control of the power structure. "The only trouble comes when the government enacts a new law. Then there is protest. But overall, people are too concerned about having a good time and getting along. It will come all right--someday. But not for a long, long time...
...still sleep on dried llama fetuses to cure what ails them, still subsist mainly on dried potatoes. The U.S. put great store in President Victor Paz Estenssoro, who made a start at bringing his country into the 20th century, but was so heavy-handed about it that he was overthrown by a military coup last November. Air Force General Rene Barrientos is now in command and promises new elections this September...
...funds, helped build up the Inter-American Committee on the Alliance into a forum where Latin Americans can realistically criticize and improve on their own national self-help programs-which are the basis for Alliance financial aid. After Brazil's demagogic President João ("Jango") Goulart was overthrown, Mann responded quickly with aid that helped start Brazil toward economic stability...
...some real world, and were not merely postulates of convenience. Yet Einstein's own work, like Loeb's contributed to the overthrow of that position. In 1927, the physicist Percy Bridgman questioned how it was possible that Newtonian theory, which had been accepted throughout the nineteenth century, could be overthrown. He answered, in brief, that Einstein had replaced Newton's absolute concepts--absolute space, absolute motion, absolute time--with concepts defined in terms of particular observers, such as time and length relative to an observer. The truth arrived at by these observers were necessarily more limited in scope, more subject...