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...grey clouds of South American winter hung low over La Paz as the blue, bulletproof Cadillac pulled up to the newly constructed grade school. Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro stepped out, strode into the crowded schoolyard and took his place in line. "We are here to vote," he said simply. After a 25-minute wait, Paz dropped his pink ballot into the box, dipped a finger into a cup of red ink to prove he had voted, then drove off to attend to other affairs of state...
...went last week throughout Bolivia. In calm, peaceful balloting, the Andean nation's voters turned out to elect Paz to his second straight term and his third since the 1952 revolution that toppled the country's feudal tinmining aristocracy. All threats of anti-Paz demonstrations, violent strikes, even hints of an assassination attempt, proved empty. Early returns gave Paz 677,000 votes, a clear majority of the country's estimated 900,000 eligible voters and more than enough to secure his mandate for another term...
...Paz's biggest job was whipping the nationalized tin-mining industry into shape. Under Union Boss Lechin, mine employment soared from 19,000 to 29,000; by 1960 the mines were losing $10 million a year, and only aid from the U.S. kept the industry going. A year later, Paz signed an agreement with the U.S., the Inter-American Development Bank and West Germany for $38 million to modernize the mines, promising in return to lop 6,000 men from the payrolls. Lechin and his miners threatened civil war. But Paz had enough political strength to ride...
...There May Be Trouble." The animosity between Paz and Lechin has grown ever more bitter. In December, tensions exploded when the miners kidnaped four Americans as hostages for two far-leftist union leaders arrested as part of the mine cleanup. After ten days, the miners backed down; at the party convention a month later, Lechin was drummed out, and Paz was named for a third term. The raging Lechin called a rump convention and swore to run against Paz...
...much power Lechin retains is questionable. After Paz's triumphant tour of Oruro last week, Lechin decided to withdraw from the election and announced that he would boycott the voting. He then did the only thing he could think of: he challenged Paz to a duel "to prevent the spilling of innocent blood." Paz ignored the challenge, and other threats of street demonstrations, strikes and even assassination. "There may be trouble," he admits. "They may try to kill me. But we have set out the design, and we intend to carry...