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...fringe of nowhere in the heart of South America, the Paraguayan town of Pedro Juan Caballero and the Brazilian town of Ponta Porã doze in the green, rolling forests of the Amambay plateau. A broad, straight strip of grass between the red-roofed towns marks the international border. But they really form a single frontier community of bearded, mud-stained Gauchos, Syrian merchants, Redemptorist priests, barefoot women, and soldiers in faded green uniforms...
...morning last fortnight, all these people marched out past their tumbledown cemetery to the green grass Pedro Juan Caballero airstrip. Soon, two silvery Douglas transports circled and landed, bringing Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner, U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay Arthur Ageton and other local and foreign dignitaries. Forward to greet them stepped Clarence Earl Johnson, a 6-ft, 200-lb. Texan in a white Stetson, faded blue jeans with pearl buttons, and cowhide boots...
...unofficial strongman. He first tightened socialistic controls on prices and currency exchange, a move every bit as alarming as the conservatives had feared. They boycotted Congress, paralyzing it. Then came violence: the assassination of the editor of La Prensa, the Apra-hating newspaper owned by conservative Cotton Exporter Pedro Beltrán. Apristas were blamed; President Bustamante called for a soldier to take charge of public order. His choice: gimlet-eyed Colonel Manuel Odria, then chief of staff...
...hard to be too conservative as a churchman in Spain, but Seville's Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz has managed it. He has lambasted Dictator Franco for being too nice to Protestants and for allowing the Falange to be too "anticlerical," he has looked nostalgically back at the Inquisition, has damned and damped down such pleasures as movies and dances in his archdiocese of Seville...
...Colombia, in its first sizable deal with the Reds, signed up with some visiting East German drummers to barter $10 million in coffee and tobacco for light machinery. Said Pedro Bernal, manager of the Coffee Exporters' Association: "Now let's see whether we can open markets for coffee in the real Iron Curtain countries...