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...Paz, Bolivia...
...Mexico City, whatever its similarities to other great cities, is also uniquely itself, a special expression of its people and its traditions. "In the valley of Mexico [City] man feels himself suspended between heaven and earth, and he oscillates between contrary powers and forces," the poet Octavio Paz wrote in a study, The Labyrinth of Solitude. "Reality. .. exists by itself here, has a life of its own, and was not invented by man as it was in the United States . . . One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror...
...injunction on Sotheby's auction house, preventing the sale of the original diaries of the Argentine-born guerrilla leader. The court order will allow Bolivia to continue its efforts to recover the documents that, its government says, were stolen from army archives in the capital of La Paz...
...even counting the 100 or more regimes that managed to cling to power for only a few hours. So citizens were not exactly surprised when they heard that, at 5 a.m. last Saturday, some 60 police and army recruits had pulled up to the presidential residence in La Paz, ordered a sleeping President Hernan Siles Zuazo from his bed and bundled him off to an undisclosed location in the 12,000 ft. high Andean city...
...armed forces reject this attempt against the President." The powerful Bolivian Confederation of Workers, which has been staging a series of strikes to protest worsening economic conditions, also declared its support for "constitutional order." Scarcely ten hours after the incident had begun, Siles was found in a La Paz warehouse and was released...