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Recently, White drifted through the swinging doors of the dim, dark-paneled bar of Quito's Hotel Majestic. In the next few days he spent a lot of time at a bar table, occasionally speaking in a low voice to chance acquaintances. Soon shifty-eyed visitors began coming to see him. After that, White took to strolling the streets, inconspicuous in a wrinkled grey suit. From time to time, beside a convent wall or in a park, he met seedy individuals and received small packages in return for bills he peeled from a fat wad of U.S. $100s...
...oldest continuing religious broadcast on the air. Now using the facilities of Manhattan's station WMGM, Calvary broadcasts twice each Sunday to a radio audience clustered in half a dozen nearby states. Its programs are also picked up on short wave and relayed by Station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador. Last year Pastor Wimbish got 25,000 letters from his U.S. and foreign listeners, many of them from people who were converted by the program...
Before the eyes of diplomats, generals and other men of distinction gathered in Quito's ornate Sucre National Theater last week, Manhattan-born Galo Plaza Lasso took off his yellow, blue and red presidential sash. For the first time since 1924, a constitutionally elected President of Ecuador had served out his full four-year term and was passing the emblem of office to a constitutionally elected successor. The sash had fitted husky ex-Athlete (University of California) Plaza a lot better than it fitted bony Scholar (international law, political theory) Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, Ecuador's new chief...
...position that closely resembles Peronism. During the campaign the Argentine Ambassador in Quito, Cesar Salvador Mazzetti, so clearly showed his support of Velasco that Plaza declared the diplomat persona non grata for meddling in Ecuadorian politics, and packed him off to Buenos Aires...
...dawn in Guayaquil, Ecuador's second city (pop. 216,000) and major seaport. It ended with his humiliating arrest a couple of hours later by the army officers he thought would join him. By 4 p.m. the same day, he was in the massive old jail in Quito, Ecuador's capital, 290 miles away. Last July, after Guevara had served a year, President Galo Plaza Lasso got Congress to pardon and free...