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...realize that Begin and Sadat hold the spotlight with their soft-shoe routine, but I would like you to register my vote for the young, attractive and miraculous Premier of Spain-Don Adolfo Suárez...
...York City Mayor Edward Koch. Piñerua had the services of Clifton White, a former Barry Goldwater aide, and Joseph Napolitan, author of The Election Game and How to Win It, who ran the successful 1973 campaign of outgoing President Carlos Andrés Pérez...
Garth, who speaks little Spanish, relied on two top staffers who spoke the local language, and used two American law students to take his poll surveys for him. Herrera and Piñerua each spent an estimated $8 million for TV time. President Pérez, who naturally had an interest in seeing Piñerua elected, meanwhile managed to get around a law barring presidential involvement in an election by hitting the hustings on what were billed as "administrative tours." His government spent $15 million touting its achievements and otherwise burnishing its image. To critics of that blatant electioneering...
Indeed it was. Following Garth's script, Herrera hammered away on one theme: Acción Democrática had accomplished too little with the wealth that Venezuela had gained as a result of the rise in oil prices after 1973. Though the money enabled the Pérez administration to triple government spending in five years, to $10.7 billion in 1978, many of Venezuela's 13 million citizens felt that they had gotten less than a trickle of the oil windfall. Venezuela's per capita income has risen sharply and is now, at $2,357, South...
...plot was thwarted when loyal officers got wind of it and warned Suárez. By nightfall on Nov. 16, a 100-man special operations force had moved into position to protect the palace, and Suárez had called in all his top military and police commanders and Defense Ministry officials. Meanwhile, two of the suspected plotters and a dissident general were arrested...