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Sosa Rodríguez is just that. A great-great-granduncle on his father's side signed Venezuela's preliminary declaration of independence in 1810. Sosa Rodríguez was ambassador in London when Marcos Pérez Jiménez made himself President in 1952. He went into self-exile, returned when Dictator Pérez Jiménez was overthrown, and since 1958 has been Venezuela's permanent representative...
...ineptitude of the police is a sharp reversal of the days of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, when Venezuelan cops, although quick to torture political prisoners, at least caught crooks and hoodlums. But after the revolution of 1958, Venezuelans-fed up with ten years of police brutality-opted for heavily diluted police authority. Today, rather than one central police force, Caracas has six-all with different bosses and varying assignments. Cooperation is a sometime thing. Last week, after four men held up a Pepsi-Cola warehouse seven miles outside Caracas, an employee pursuing them down the highway...
...Gloria Vanderbilt, 39, who never seemed able to settle down after she got $5,000,000 of the family fortune as a 21st birthday present; and TV-Movie Director Sidney Lumet, 39; by mutual consent on grounds of incompatibility; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Juárez, Mexico...
...Torture Chambers. Aware of both traditions, Venezuela's ex-Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez felt pretty secure when he fled to the U.S. after his overthrow in 1958. Tubby P.J. had left a lot of grandiose new buildings (including one of the world's grandest officers' clubs) behind him in Venezuela, but he had also left a lot of scars. A military strongman who gained dictatorial control of his country in 1948, P.J. poured Venezuela's rich oil royalties into an array of public works that made Caracas the most impressively prosperous-looking...
...dingy string of stockyards, tenements and small factories near the bridges between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, El Chamizal hardly seems worth the fuss. Yet President Kennedy heard about it at length during his Mexico trip last year. He left convinced that it was time to end the quarrel once and for all. Last week, after months of negotiation by U.S. Ambassador Thomas Mann, the U.S. and Mexico, in simultaneous ceremonies in Washington and Mexico City, announced a settlement...