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...Visitors. A colonel and a captain waked the President at the ungodly hour of 5 a.m. by pounding on the door of his hotel suite in Pasto (altitude: 8,400 ft.), where he had gone to watch army maneuvers. White-haired, gentle-mannered President Lopez padded sleepily to the door, peered into the barrels of two drawn revolvers, admitted his visitors, learned that he was "under arrest." Another colonel, one Diogenes Gil, had led a successful army revolt, said the visitors. The President had two hours to resign. Soldiers entered, stepped briskly to all the windows and doors and stood...
...Pasto, Colonel Diogenes Gil proclaimed himself President...
...road to Popayan, the abductors of President Lopez abruptly turned around, rattled back through Pasto, turned off on a mule trail. They had heard that the Popayan soldiers were loyal. At 5 p.m. the party stopped for the night at the hacienda of a couple of old-line, embarrassed Conservatives. Liberal President Lopez and son were agreeably entertained...
Velasco Ibarra has one disadvantage: he is not in Ecuador. The President has forbidden him to re-enter the country, from which he was exiled in 1940. Undiscouraged, Velasco Ibarra recently set up headquarters at Pasto across the Colombian border. From that point he conducts a fly-by-night campaign by means of furtive messengers. His position with the voters is apparently strong; but fearing electoral fraud, he is said to be hoping for Army support, a near-necessity for a would-be President of Ecuador...
...game in the van. The Ithacans head the list with a record of three games won and five lost as a result of having subdued Yale by 6 to 4 in New Haven last Saturday n a game where timely hitting and the steady pitching of Captain Tuure Pasto carried the verdict...