Word: paz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coups. The ousted civilian President, Lawyer Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, was serving' as Vice President last April when President René Barrientos, the flamboyant ex-air chief, was killed in a helicopter crash. Ovando, the army chief and Barrientos' partner in the 1964 coup against Victor Paz Estenssoro, was in the U.S. at the time. Except for that fact, he almost certainly would have seized power then...
Really Revolutionary. Instead, Ovando bided his time, counting on winning the presidency legitimately in next year's elections. But things soon began to sour. The mayor of La Paz, another general, entered the presidential race. Radicals in the legislature opened fire on Ovando, charging that he had accepted $600,000 from the U.S.-owned Bolivian Gulf
Colombian urban terrorists affiliated with the Army of National Liberation pocketed at least $600,000 in ransom money from kidnapings in August alone. In Bolivia, where 22 dynamite explosions have rocked La Paz and other cities since May, the government last week scored a rare triumph over the guerrillas. Police surprised Guido "Inti" Peredo, the only one of Guevara's lieutenants to survive Che's doomed campaign, in a house in La Paz. Inti died in the clash. In Guatemala City, where terrorists last year assassinated U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein and two U.S. military attach...
...Lima had been suspended because of seizures of and fines for U.S. tuna boats charged with violating Peru's self-declared 200-mile limit. Bolivia, next on his itinerary, limited Rockefeller's visit to three hours for fear of student demonstrations-and consultations were held at La Paz's heavily guarded 13,350-ft.-high airport rather than in the capital. Then, 29 hours before Rocky was to have landed at Caracas' Maiquetía airport, the Venezuelan government asked for a postponement of the visit-most likely because President Rafael Caldera does not want...
...government in confusion. Vice President Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, 43, hurried to Quemado Palace at the news -and was denied admission by guards who did not recognize him. "Let him in," barked an officer. "He is the President." Army Chief Alfredo Ovando, who with Barrientos had overthrown Victor Paz Estenssoro in 1964 (Barrientos won an election in 1966), was in Washington on a visit. The U.S. Air Force immediately offered him a C140 jet to fly home quickly. While Siles and Ovando and other dignitaries escorted Barrientos' body to La Paz Cathedral, Bolivians mourning the past also began...