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Next to the Paraguayan embassy's main entrance on bustling Calle Via-monte in downtown Buenos Aires, a small, dark doorway ducks down into a forbidding, grottolike cellar. A bored cop stands guard outside, and some times passers-by stop to stare. For seven years, nine months, two weeks and a few odd days, the cellar has been home to Brothers Juan Carlos Cardoso, 46, and Luis Amadeo Cardoso, 41, making them easily the current champions in that treasured Latin American institution known as political asylum. Only Peru's Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, who fled...
...million last year in U.S. aid) as he sees fit. Last year 33% went for the army and police force. 15% for education. 2% for public works. Stroessner grandly said that he would accept re-election "not because I wanted it, but because it was the request of the Paraguayan people...
...mobs of his descamisados to burn the high-toned Jockey Club, the Radical and Socialist Party headquarters, nine Roman Catholic churches. Fed up at last, the military rose against him in September 1955. When it seemed that a navy cruiser might fire on Buenos Aires, he fled aboard a Paraguayan gunboat...
German-descended Artillery Officer Stroessner, 47, grabbed power in Paraguay six years ago and has ruled since by blackjack and gun butt. With his powerful neighbors, his policy has been the historic Paraguayan strategy of playing one against the other. At first, Paraguay favored Brazil, but when Argentine Dictator Juan Perón in 1953 offered an "economic integration" treaty, Stroessner (then all-powerful army chief) gave preference to Argentina. Perón was toppled in 1955 (he took exile in Paraguay at first), and Argentina's succeeding revolutionary regime turned on a cold war. Stroessner promptly let himself...
...house searches ashore, put three destroyers, 18 warplanes, and some helicopters to patrolling the gulf itself, and lined up five warships at the seven-mile entrance, where the depth is only 60 ft. For top security, ships communicated with one another in the Guarani Indian dialect, spoken by Paraguayan naval cadets aboard the Argentine vessels for training...