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...National Palace, 32-year-old Major Carlos Paz Tejada, army chief, strode into a cabinet meeting, told President Arévalo that the army had been forced to take over to keep order...
...while it seemed that Argentina might give up its "third position" between democracy and Communism, and join the U.S. and the United Nations in the Korean war. Answering a request from U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie for ground troops, Foreign Minister Hipólito Jésus Paz replied last week: "In accordance with our desire to comply with our obligations as a member of the United Nations ... we are waiting for the unified command to enter into direct communication with the Argentine government...
Barefoot Indian and mestizo youngsters swarmed last week into La Paz for a homemade-auto derby promoted by Bolivia's leading newspaper, La Razon. Some 10,000 spectators lined a twomile, zigzagging, up & downhill race course. Among 250 drivers was one seven-year-old who came equipped with a white smock and first-aid kit; he listed his car as an ambulance, won the right to enter it. The Catavi tin-mining region sent six entrants whose expenses had been paid by subscription. One boy, asked whether he had brakes on his car, replied...
...building strongpoint, government forces advanced into the northern working-class districts. There the rioters fought stubbornly with small hand grenades made of cement, scrap iron and dynamite, apparently brought from the tin mines. Finally the army, firing a few mortar shells, drove the rioters into the hills rimming La Paz...
Having failed to rouse the citizens of La Paz to fight as they did in 1946, the rebels surrendered. Probably 50 had been killed, over 200 wounded in the fighting. Among 400 prisoners were leaders of the Bolivian Confederation of Labor and Sergio Almaraz, the leading Bolivian Communist. At week's end the schoolteachers accepted a flat 10% pay raise (they had originally asked for a sliding scale ranging up to 70%), and the general strike seemed to be broken...