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...battalion of frock-coated military-academy cadets stood ramrod straight; eight mariachi bands and two brass bands took their positions. Fifteen thousand people milled around expectantly. Across the airport roof stretched a sign etched in blue flowers: "Francia y México par la Paz del Mundo-Viva Francia." Then out of a warm, clear sky whistled the white-and-blue-trimmed Caravelle carrying Charles de Gaulle. Down the steps he lumbered, over to a red dais, and to the first crack of a 21-gun salute, France's towering (6 ft. 4 in.) President leaned low and bussed...
Bolivian politics is a game of Byzantine intrigue in which only the master of sly maneuver can hope to survive. In and out of office, the master for the past dozen years has been moderate President Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 56, a pale, impassive economist whose term ends this year. After fending off successive threats from an old foe on the far left and a rising political figure on the right, Paz has now paved the way for almost certain re-election...
Saved by the Wings. The first challenge came from ambitious Juan Lechín, the leftist Vice President, who has been at loggerheads with Paz ever since they rose to power in the 1952 revolution that toppled the Andean country's feudal tin-mining aristocracy. Unable to patch up their differences at the ruling M.N.R. party convention in January, Paz had himself nominated for another term as President, while Lechín was drummed out of the party. Then Lechín called a rump convention at which he tried to rig an anti-Paz alliance of Communists...
Replacing Lechín on the M.N.R. ticket stirred up an unexpected storm. Paz hand-picked lackluster Senate President Federico Fortún Sanjinés as his new running mate, thereby offending several prominent right-wing M.N.R. leaders, whose vice-presidential choice was General René Barrientos Ortuño, 44, Bolivia's crewcut, U.S.-trained air force commander. Unmoved by their protests, Paz was all set to send Barrientos into semi-exile as ambassador to London, a classic Bolivian ploy for settling intraparty disputes. Then, late one night last month, Barrientos was mysteriously ambushed and shot...
...Paz, Bolivia, where city officials supposedly have the say on who does business where, the women openly buy and sell prime stalls like seats on the stock exchange. A good location brings as much as $600, and woe betide the male who tries to interfere. In Colombia, the mayor of Bogota once sent city officials to enforce a ruling ordering market women to don white aprons and keep their food off the ground. Market women launched a counterbarrage of rotten tomatoes, and that ended that. In Paraguay, fire hoses were used against the women but were no match for flying...