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...defiant show. In his beribboned cavalryman's uniform, General Ricardo Pérez Godoy, 59, head of the four-man military junta that took over Peru after inconclusive elections last year, sat stiffly in the ornate Salón Blanco of Lima's presidential palace listening to the complaints of two fellow junta members, Air Force Major General Pedro Vargas Prada and Vice Admiral Francisco Torres Matos. The midnight callers gave him an ultimatum: resign or be driven out. Replied Pérez Godoy: "I refuse to leave. It is too late now to continue this conversation...
...bravado was in vain. Warned that his comrades-in-arms were determined to remove him, Pérez Godoy had tried to rally support among provincial military commanders and among civilians working toward new presidential elections in June. All his efforts failed. Just before dawn, Pérez Godoy got into a car with his wife Lola and drove off to his suburban home...
More Equal. According to his fellow soldiers, Pérez Godoy was growing too attached to his job as senior man among the junta's four ''co-Presidents." First, he decided that he and his wife should live in the palace while the other junta members and their wives stayed home. Next, his wife, who presumably shared authority with the three other junta wives in running the National Board for Social Assistance, seemed to want to be more equal than the others. Then Pérez Godoy started issuing orders...
Divorced. By Rita Gam, 34, occasional cinemactress (The Thief): Thomas Guinzburg, 36, touchy Viking Press executive, who, according to Rita, started all their trouble when he gave up smoking; after nearly seven years of marriage, two children; in Juárez, Mexico...
...other chief of state south of the border has been under sharper attack from the extremes of left and right or fought them all off more courageously. From the moment Betancourt was elected to office in 1958 after the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the Communists and a gaggle of the discontented have done their best to topple his government. In the economic fallout that came after the corrupt dictatorship's fall, there were many grievances to exploit; Communist-fired mobs roamed the capital; Communist gunmen murdered policemen, started backland guerrilla uprisings, even infiltrated...