Word: tancourt
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...election was a personal triumph for Betancourt, it was considerably less of a political victory. As expected, the winner was Raul Leoni, 57, the shrewd, dour president of Betancourt's Accion Democrdtica party. A founder of A.D., Leoni served as Venezuela's Labor Minister while Be tancourt was provisional President from 1945 to 1948, later took over the party leadership in 1958 when Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez was overthrown and Betancourt elected President. Leoni campaigned on a promise to continue Betancourt's successful economic and social reforms. But he lacks Betancourt's flair and almost hypnotic...
...Numbers. But such nasty little showboating stunts to disrupt the elections were not the only things the Castroites had in mind. Last week Be tancourt offered proof that Communist Cuba was sending in heavy arms ship ments for full-scale guerrilla warfare. On display in Caracas was an arsenal of three tons of F.A.L.N. weapons: 31 submachine guns, five 60-mm. mortars, 20 bazookas, 28 packages of plastic explosives, 81 Belgian automatic rifles with 20,000 rounds of ammunition. Most of the serial numbers and other markings were ground off. But one rifle still had a number - it turned...
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