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...president, secretary-general of the Organization of American States and veteran of a previous tour as President (1945-46), Lleras got the National Front started by joining his Liberals with Laureano Gómez' Conservatives to aid a group of fed-up army officers bounce Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla on May 10, 1957. Now Lleras rules under a pact that splits the Cabinet, Congress and local offices fifty-fifty between the two parties...
Diehard military men, bent on short-circuiting the sure election of Civilian Alberto Lleras Camargo as bipartisan President of Colombia, brazenly kidnaped five top Colombians last week. The victims: four of the five joint presidents who make up the military junta that dumped Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last May-and Candidate Lleras himself...
Together in the palace, Lleras and Piedrahita took stock. By telephone, Forero proclaimed his insurrection "a romantic movement to restore the honor of the armed forces." Apparently he hoped to bargain for postponement of the election and formation of a new junta. Rumors racing through town that Rojas Pinilla was coming back took on added weight from the fact that the exiled military dictator last week left Lisbon, flew to Bermuda, bought a ticket for Barbados. But the armed forces stuck solidly behind the junta. Piedrahita was still free to take charge, and that was enough...
...bloodied by a no-quarter guerrilla war between Conservatives and Liberals that has taken more than 100,000 lives in the past ten years; now its economy is strained by heavy overseas indebtedness. And the military junta that has been in charge since the fall of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last May has been waiting with thinning patience for the civilian politicos to quit squabbling and agree on a man and a plan...
...Spain, forced Lleras to reopen the question and agree that unless León Valencia won the approval of a majority of the new Congress, he would no longer be the joint candidate. Now León Valencia is bitter. "If I had not entered the battle against Rojas Pinilla's dictatorship last year," he said last week, "Gómez would still be in Barcelona." He thereupon announced that if Lleras Camargo and Gómez name some other Conservative as the bipartisan candidate, he himself will also run and thus again open the door to dangerous strife...