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...First order of business was the election of Venezuela's Ambassador Carlos Sosa Rodríguez, 51, to the presidency of the Assembly. Approved by a vote of 99 nations (eleven abstained and Nepal arrived too late to cast a ballot), the trim, businesslike lawyer-accountant accepted the gavel from Pakistan's bearded Zafrulla Khan. Then, in Spanish (he is also fluent in French and English), Sosa Rodriguez introduced himself as "a son of the native land...
...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...
Died. José Humberto Sosa Molina, 67, brash, bulky (more than 200 Ibs.) Argentine army general and ex-Dictator Juan Perón's last Minister of Defense, who crushed the June 1955 anti-Perón naval revolt, failed to stop the September revolution, which swept him and his boss out of power; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires. Among Sosa Molina's rewards for carrying out Perón's dirty work: 265 car import licenses, each worth more than...
...Castro rambled loquaciously on. He said that the U.S. role in the 1898 Spanish-American War was merely belated intervention after the Cubans had effectively beaten Spain. He attacked demagoguery and nepotism (his brother Raul is chief of the armed forces). He saw to it that Captain Jesus Sosa Blanco-the Batista officer convicted of mass murder in a circus trial in Havana's Sports Palace-got a new hearing. The judges were the same and so was the verdict: death by firing squad. Counting Sosa Blanco, 14 "war criminals" were executed last week, bringing the latest total...
...Captain Jesus Sosa Blanco, convicted of "war crimes" in the famed Roman-circus setting in Havana's Sports Palace, was scheduled for retrial this week. Invited guests: the Knights of Columbus, Rotary and Lions Clubs. Judges: the same three-man tribunal that convicted him before...