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...PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 15--President Victor Paz Estenssore ordered his military chief today to fly to the tin mining center of Orure to pick up four Americans and 15 other hostages held by anti-government miners since...
...Senses. A onetime lawyer, soldier and economics professor, Paz is short and swarthy, with gentle brown eyes and a friendly humor. Yet in 1952, he led a social revolution that emancipated the population from virtual serfdom and crushed the power of the army. In its early days, like Mexico's PRI in the first stages of the Mexican revolution, Paz's National Revolutionary Movement operated with a heavy hand, sending its enemies to concentration camps or into exile. Today, though it is plagued by entrenched party politicians ("Tammany Hall," Paz calls them), the party probably speaks...
...Inter-American Development Bank and West Germany for a $38 million modernization of the tin industry-provided Comibol reduced its padded 27,000-man payroll. Last August, when the first 1,015 workers were laid off, the Communist-infiltrated tin workers' union staged a nationwide tin strike. Paz refused to bend; after 13 days the strikers capitulated...
...victory left Paz in firm control of Bolivia. Violence is still possible; Paz rides to the palace each morning in a bulletproof Cadillac and keeps a tommy gun in the car. But he is the odds-on favorite to win the party's nomination for another four-year term in the presidential election next June...
Looking Down. In between a White House state luncheon, a State Department dinner, and two hours of talks with President Kennedy last week, Paz asked for special delivery U.S. aid for a project that goes far beyond the tin mines. Already Bolivia gets more U.S. aid per capita than any other Latin American nation. Bolivia is so poor (per capita income: $114, only slightly better than Haiti) and so afflicted by nature that the strongest hope for progress rests in a vast scheme to open up fertile eastern lowlands beyond the Andes and relocate large numbers of altiplano Indians...