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...Tell them in La Paz that the in portant thing is not to send the troops," pleaded USIA Official Thomas Martin. "If they bring in troops, we're finished...
...German and eleven Bolivians - frightened and endangered pawns in a medieval power struggle high in the Bolivian Andes. Dark-featured Indian women, wives of rebellious tin miners, stood guard over them in a shabby union hall at the 14,000-ft.-high Siglo Veinte mine, 135 miles from La Paz. The women cradled tommy guns and tucked dynamite caps beneath their bulging petticoats. On the floor below, just a bullet's zing through the wooden boards should fighting break out, 50 cases of dynamite were stored...
...hostages, kidnaped by the miners in a desperate effort to trade them for two left-wing union leaders held for a long string of crimes. But more than the arrest of the two union leaders was involved: the miners were in open defiance of the government in La Paz. And their leader, Juan Lechin, 50, Bolivia's far-leftist Vice President, was using their grievances as a defiant bid for power against Victor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivia's constitutional President, who intends to run for re-election next...
...dispatch said the agreement reached Saturday night between La Paz and Lechin had not been well received in some sectors in the catavi-Siglo Veinte mining area...
Terms for the release of the prisoners were worked out by leftist vice-President Juan Lechin and Paz last night. Lechin agreed to order the release of the hostages if the government would release on bond the two union leaders and move their trial La Paz to Catavi...