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...problems officially become President Romulo Betancourt's problems this week. Before a skeleton crew of delegates from overseas-held down at the economy-minded President-elect's own request, he will get into the ceremonial sash and inherit the headaches left by ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez...
...public works. Schools must be built for 600,000 children now crowded out. Hospitals are needed; Betancourt says: "We should never again witness the spectacle of two women ready to give birth occupying one single bed." At first Betancourt will be pinched for funds for the reconstruction job. Dictator Perez Jimenez left short-term debts of $1.4 billion, and half of them still remain to be paid...
Garcia's own popularity has plummeted. In mid-December, when he arrived at Manila's Rizal Stadium to see the world championship flyweight fight between Argentina's Pascul Perez and the Philippines' Dommy Ursua, the and crowd the Philip greeted him with a thunderous boo, which ended only when somebody ordered the band to play the national anthem. When it was announced that the President and his wife would present the belt to the winner, booing broke out all over again...
...province, to be met by Batista's 1st Regiment. Only a dozen rebels escaped the slaughter. Among them were Cuba's future leaders: Fidel and Raul Castro, an Argentine surgeon named Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, a onetime New York dishwasher named Camilo Cienfuegos, a Havana rebel named Faustino Perez...
Venezuela. Last week the government announced that it had negotiated a $289 million loan from a consortium of U.S., British and Canadian banks to put part of the burdensome $1.4 billion debt left by ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez on a businesslike basis...