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There the captives sat last week -Martin and three other Americans, a Dutchman, a German and eleven Bolivians - frightened and endangered pawns in a medieval power struggle high in the Bolivian Andes. Dark-featured Indian women, wives of rebellious tin miners, stood guard over them in a shabby union hall at the 14,000-ft.-high Siglo Veinte mine, 135 miles from La Paz. The women cradled tommy guns and tucked dynamite caps beneath their bulging petticoats. On the floor below, just a bullet's zing through the wooden boards should fighting break out, 50 cases of dynamite were...
Both Lechin and Paz are members of Bolivia's ruling M.N.R. Party, and together they plotted the 1952 revolution that toppled the country's feudal tin-mining aristocracy. But once in power, Paz and Lechin swiftly became bitter rivals. As Minister of Mines, Lechin, who is part Arab and part Indian, styled himself a "Trotskyite Communist," turned the 40,000-man miners' union into his private militia, and proceeded to featherbed the nationalized mines with 6,000 unneeded workers. The miners called him "El Maestro"-but the once profitable mines became a shambles, losing money...
Call to Revolt. Lechin hurried home from Rome to fight. In radio broadcasts to the tin miners, he accused Paz of selling out to the "imperialists." At a labor rally, under a banner proclaiming THE WORKING CLASS AGAINST THAT CALAMITY CALLED THE ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS, Lechin announced his own presidential candidacy...
...Bolivia, Dec. 15--President Victor Paz Estenssore ordered his military chief today to fly to the tin mining center of Orure to pick up four Americans and 15 other hostages held by anti-government miners since...
Relief on Sunday. The worst quality of broadcast news, people reported, was that it talked too much without saying enough new. "I'm getting claustrophobia or a tin ear or something," said one respondent. "If they do mention something I'm interested in, it slides right by me." "The same thing over and over," was the frequent complaint. In contrast, the newspaper reader can follow the path of his own interests, guided but not compelled by headlines and layout...