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Standing on the road near one end of San Salvador's Ilopango Airport one afternoon last week, Felix Lara, 24, an Indian laborer, watched a Pan American Airways Constellation taxi out for the take-off to Honduras. Just as the plane started to roll, Felix vaulted the airport fence, leaped up on the axle housing of the right main landing wheel, and flung his arms around the fat supporting strut...
...other Latin Americans rallied to intercede for the zealot. From Guatemala, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and El Salvador flowed petitions and resolutions. Puerto Ricans in New York City formed a Save Collazo Committee, got 30,000 signatures on a clemency petition. From Puerto Rico came messages pointing out that the island has no death penalty. Last week Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Mufioz Marin sent an urgent telegram to the White House. The U.S. State Department advised the President that the execution of Collazo would damage U.S.. relations with all Latin America. Eight days before Collazo's anticipated...
...code clerk in the home office, where she is in position to learn diplomatic codes and read top secret messages; a Communist consul in the Dominican Republic was transferred to Greece and made chargé d'affaires; another known Communist was jumped from consul third class in El Salvador to chargé d'affaires in that country...
Brazil's government is hostile to Lacerda, who has thrown verbal punches at many a government bigwig, from President Getulio Vargas down. But his reports were too well documented to be ignored. The foreign ministry replaced the charge d'affaires in El Salvador, recalled an accused consul from London, announced that a three-man commission would be formed to look into Lacerda's allegations...
...favorite subject-himself-Salvador Dali writes at least as vividly as he paints. In the French monthly La Table Ronde, Dali adds to the autobiographical score by giving his own account of why he was booted out of the "official" surrealist group in the early...