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Future Hopes. Even though Larrazabal promised free elections "as soon as possible," the memory of Pérez Jiménez' persecution left Venezuela's long-harassed politicians still a bit gun-shy. In exile in New York, a joint "Great Civic Front" was tentatively pieced together by Venezuela's three foremost political leaders: Rómulo Betancourt, 49, president of a semimilitary government from 1945 to 1948 and head of the left-wing Democratic Action Party; Rafael Caldera, 41, leader of the Copei (Christian Social) Party; and Jóvito Villalba, 49, head of the middle...
...could not win the 1952 election, is insecure in the saddle after trying for 14 months without success to smash an ever-strengthening guerrilla revolt in Cuba's eastern mountains. Only the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, 66, now playing host to exiled Pérez Jiménez and his crew, still keeps the lid clamped shut on his rich, thoroughly cowed little island nation...
...suite of Caracas' Tamanaco Hotel at 1:30 a.m. (E.S.T.) Thursday, New York Times Correspondent Tadeusz Witold Szulc dictated a two-word cable: "Shipment delivered." His message, received by the Times 40 minutes later, was the outside world's first word that Venezuela Strongman Marcos Pérez Jiménez had been overthrown. By the time the dictator's DC-4 took off at 2:10 a.m. for the Dominican Republic -dutifully watched from the hotel's presidential terrace by Reporter Szulc-the Times was making over its first two pages for the big story...
...inform you 24 boilers out of order") to relay casualty totals. When last Monday's 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...
...expelled if they tried to beat the blackout. By way of emphasis, the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois was bounced out of the country within 24 hours of his arrival, could not return until after the government was overthrown. Within half an hour of Dictator Pérez Jiménez' flight, the ten-year-old censorship was scrapped. Nonetheless, newsmen still had a complaint: to quell street rioting, the new government slapped a ban on liquor sales that proved far harder to crack than censorship...