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...When three men and two women checked into a La Paz hotel in February, an alert desk clerk recalled that one of the men had checked in four years before under a different name and passport. Bolivian police arrested the man, who turned out to be a Uruguayan wanted in Miami for drug trafficking. The cops let the others go, but BNDD agents were convinced that the ones who got away were important and traced the two couples to Mexico City. There they were identified as Jean-Paul Angeletti, 28, a Corsican, and Lucien Sarti, 34, a native of Marseille...
...tunnel. Two days later, Tupamaros staged six fatal ambushes around Montevideo, killing two policemen, a naval officer, and a former Cabinet under secretary. Eight Tupamaros, including two of the prison escapees, also lost their lives. The outbreak of violence caused President, Juan María Bordaberry to ask the Uruguayan Congress to suspend individual rights and to declare a "state of internal war." At week's end, Congress approved his requested measures, but only for 30 days...
Never in Uruguay's 143-year history had an election been cast in such apocalyptic terms. As 1,700,000 Uruguayan voters-an impressive 87% of the electorate-trooped to the polls last week, the full-page political advertisements in the country's hotly partisan newspapers fairly screamed. NOW YOU CAN CHOOSE...
Grabbing the Handle. On the eve of the election, some pollsters gave the Front a fair chance to beat both Pacheco's Colorados and the opposition Blancos, the two middle-reading parties which have traditionally dominated Uruguayan politics. Maybe next time. Minimizing their differences, which are small to begin with, the Colorados and Blancos joined forces against the Front in a campaign that played upon the traditionally conservative Uruguayan voter's reluctance to experiment, his deep-seated fear of Communism and his distaste for the Chilean experience. Thus the Front's hopes for a truly stupendous first...
...year ago the Frente Amplio (Broad Front) did not even exist in the Uruguayan political picture. Today there is scarcely anyone in the tiny South American nation (pop. 2,900,000) who has not heard of the new leftist coalition. It has picked up so much popular steam since it was formed last February that some observers go so far as to give it a fair chance of winning next week's presidential elections. The latest Gallup poll, released last week, shows the Broad Front running a close second among Montevideo's voters to the ruling Colorado party...