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...going on. Wolfgang Larrazabal, 46, chief of the Venezuelan navy, and eight other armed-forces officers met secretly at a Caracas military academy at 6 p.m., drew up an ultimatum giving the dictator until 10 p.m. to step down. To make the navy's position unmistakably clear, Rear Admiral Larrazabal (pronounced Lah-rah-sah-bahl) ordered nine destroyers to stand off Caracas' port of La Guaira with their guns trained on the shore. Army commanders, sickened by the sight of Venezuelan killing Venezuelan, joined the admiral's bid to end the fighting. Desperately, the dictator tried...
Mobs were still racing through the streets of Caracas as Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal took the first step toward building a new government for Venezuela. As Pérez Jiménez' DC-4 vanished over the mountains, the slim, unruffled naval chief set up an emergency military junta of four colonels representing the army, air force, national guard and the military schools, put himself at its head...
...school strike in Caracas proved a success, Newsman Szulc succeeded in getting a telephone connection to New York, dictated his entire story in Polish to his businessman-friend. The morning after Pérez Jiménez' ouster, early-rising Tad Szulc had the first press interview with Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal...
...weekly is also a harsh critic of the West, but to Poles, in their dogged, rear-guard struggle for democracy, Szpilki's sharpest needles are reserved for Communist duplicity and doublethink. In a cartoon that wryly helped to explain its own survival, Szpilki showed a technician standing with a visitor in front of a Rube Goldbergian version of an electronic brain. "You think this criticism machine is big?" said the technician. "You should see the anti-criticism machine...
...slope at Brown was "in good shape and held up fairly well. It was not too icy." The Crimson was followed by Tufts, Northeastern, American International College, and Brown. Keene Teachers College and New England College tied for sixth, while Boston University, Amherst, and Boston College brought up the rear...