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With wry bitterness, Hondurans call their small Central American republic "the land of the 70s-70% illiterate, 70% rural, 70% illegitimate." And they might add 70% politically unstable. The military coup that ousted President Ramón Villeda Morales, 54, was the 136th revolution in 142 years of independence from Spain. Only two constitutionally elected chiefs of state have completed their terms...
...powerful All-powerful and black And like all deities Our Godhead likes blood Whether it be blood of Isaac or ram Our God likes blood...
Just before sundown every Friday, a bearded Jew with a ram's horn blats a warning through the crowded, ghettolike section of Jerusalem known as Mea She'arim. The Sabbath approaches. Until sundown Saturday, no one may work, smoke, cook a meal, answer a telephone, or carry money on his person. Yellow signs outside the quarter warn that on the Sabbath only emergency vehicles, such as fire trucks and ambulances, will be allowed on its narrow, cobbled streets. Generally, not a car is moving and quiet reigns...
Heading the four-man junta that took over is Navy Commander Ramón Castro Jijón, 48, who immediately declared that the new regime was anti-Communist and democratic. In the first 24 hours, the junta imposed martial law, established a strict curfew, outlawed the Communist Party, and pledged to go after bands of pro-Castro terrorists roaming the backhands. Next year's presidential election was canceled, but the military officers promised to call a convention to draft a new constitution "when opportune." The U.S. would probably recognize the junta. But whether sober soldiers, governing by martial...
...once impregnable Congress stronghold in Gujarat on India's west coast, Minocher Rustom Masani, 57, general secretary of the right-wing Swatantra Party, downed a Congress nominee by an impressive majority of 14,000 votes. To the north in Uttar Pradesh, Socialist Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, who took his defeat at the hands of Nehru himself in last year's election, trounced a former government Information Minister. Worst slap of all came in another Uttar Pradesh constituency, where victory came to lean, acerbic Independent J. B. Kripalani, 76, the veteran Congress politician who had left the party...