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Carnevali was the man most wanted by Pedro Estrada, the government's burly police boss. Since Estrada's cops killed Carnevali's predecessor, Leonardo Ruiz Pineda, on the streets of Caracas last October (TIME, Nov. 3), Carnevali has been the underground leader of Acción Democrática, the outlawed majority party. A governor and congressman in Acción Democrática's regime, Carnevali was jailed for ten months when the army took over in 1948, then exiled. He studied at Columbia University in Manhattan, later slipped back to Venezuela. Arrested again...
...barrel of Ang's .45 Colt. Ang thrust a typewritten note at them: "Do not be alarmed. I am a desperate man. This is a stickup. Do not talk to each other." He ordered them to set a course for Amoy, some 500 miles away. Pilot Captain Pedro Perlas protested that the plane did not have enough fuel. Suddenly he threw the wheel over to the left, hoping that the 45° lurch would knock Ang off his feet. Instead, Ang kept his balance, fired two bullets into Captain Perlas. It was just a moment later that Purser Diago...
...Pili" Flamenco (Pedro Jimenez, cantador; Mario Escudero, Alberto Velez, guitars; Esoteric). Cantador Jimenez (El Pili) shouts his uninhibited incantations while the guitars, torrid and teasing by turns, strum their gypsy rhythms. Full of authentic Andalusian excitement...
...that case," said the judge, "there might have been some results." Verdict on Pedro and Viviana: guilty of swindling. Sentence: eight months (suspended), 120,000 francs fine and damages-including the price of a watch...
Crestfallen and dejected, Salesman Auguste could only moan: "There ought to be a law ..." Well, maybe there was. Last week blonde Madame Viviana and Professor Pedro were haled to a Paris criminal court by Auguste Chaussumier, whose mistress' husband they had failed to kill. "For what does he reproach them?" demanded the defense attorney. "His wish was at least as immoral as their actions. And if they had not offered their services, who knows but what Chaussumier might have gone to a professional killer...