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...with five assistants, he was barred from operating. Panamanian doctors at the Paitilla Center explained that their medical and national sensibilities had been deeply offended. They would not serve as "medical gofers," or errand boys, to the Yankee surgeon from Texas, they said. One official government newspaper, Crítica, even commended the local doctors for having "courageously defended Panamanian sovereignty...
...horns sounded a deafening tattoo in the streets of Caracas last week as Venezuelans hailed the outcome of their fifth free presidential election in 20 years. The surprise result: a defeat for the ruling left-liberal Acción Democrática Party, the country's dominant political organization...
...winner, portly, avuncular Lawyer-Politician Luis Herrera Campins, 53, leader of the centrist Social Christian Party, got some 47% of the vote. That put him well ahead of the field of nine other candidates, including Acción Democrática's Luis Piñerua Ordaz, 57, who won roughly...
Indeed it was. Following Garth's script, Herrera hammered away on one theme: Acción Democrática had accomplished too little with the wealth that Venezuela had gained as a result of the rise in oil prices after 1973. Though the money enabled the Pérez administration to triple government spending in five years, to $10.7 billion in 1978, many of Venezuela's 13 million citizens felt that they had gotten less than a trickle of the oil windfall. Venezuela's per capita income has risen sharply and is now, at $2,357, South...
...extremely unlikely that he will want or dare to break with the right so soon. Since Communist demands for a provisional government are almost certain to go unfulfilled, the P.C.E. will probably launch a series of "democratic activities": strikes, walkouts, demonstrations. In fact, the Junta Democrática-a leftist group believed to be heavily influenced by the P.C.E.-did not even wait for the young Prince to take office before it began distributing leaflets at universities last week calling for the overthrow of "the Juan Carlos dictatorship...