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...Communists, who backed non-Communist Admiral Larrazábal. With a wild barrage of slogans and Red banners, they whipped the party faithful and fellow travelers into line in Caracas, helped him win a 5-to-1 victory in the capital. But the loud Red noise apparently scared many rightist supporters of Caldera, a certain also-ran, into voting for anti-Communist Rómulo Betancourt as the best conservative choice...
...well-fed voters of little Uruguay (pop. 2.7 million) last week threw out the prolabor, welfare-statist Colorado Party that has ruled the country without interruption for 93 long years. Into power, by a vote of 414,000 to 325,000, went the rightist Nationals...
...protest. The nation's 280.000 hardbitten police, who constitute a virtual army in themselves, still seemed loyal to the Fourth Republic. Paris, ringed by its famed "Red belt" of industrial suburbs, was as apt to be dominated by leftist mobs, if it came to that, as by the rightist mobs that rioted in Algiers...
Back in London last week, Lancaster concluded: "While as a cartoonist I hate to see an easy target lowered, I am bound to say that personally I much prefer the .American the way he is today." The upgrading of boobus Americanus brought quick kudos from roundhouse Rightist John O'Donnell in his column in the New York Daily News. Declared O'Donnell: "[Lancaster's] decision is a greater diplomatic victory than our State Department has ever won when it comes to making friends with foreigners...
...individually on the islands during the last two decades, as they have taken on greater measures of local self-government. The West Indies Federal Labor Party combined the ruling Socialist parties of Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and some of the lesser islands; the less favored Democratic Labor Party united the rightist opposition movements on the two bigger islands plus a scattering of other backers. In a double upset, the Socialists ran second in Jamaica and Trinidad. But a nearly unanimous Socialist vote from the Windwards and Leewards gave the Federal Labor Party an overall majority, with 25 seats. Barring shifts...