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...first election is to be held early next year, and the Congress chosen then will select a President. Presently favored by all but right-wing Conservatives is Guillermo León Valencia, a middle-of-the-road Conservative. He will take office Aug. 7, and the ruling five-man military junta has promised for its part to step out on that date...
...Spain, Valencia's City Councilman Vincente Giner Guillot had nursed a private ambition for more than 20 years: to be the one to discover the missing one of three El Grecos that, legend said, once belonged to Valencia's 350-year-old Real Colegio del Corpus Christi. Councilman Guillot's main problem was that he knew nothing about the missing El Greco, not even its subject. The clue he needed could not have been simpler. When the director of Madrid's Museum of Modern Art heard of his search, he remembered seeing, some 20 years...
...last week, every move the dictator made to keep the upper hand went wrong. He ordered military police to end student demonstrations that broke out when his secret police arrested the joint Liberal-Conservative presidential candidate, Guillermo León Valencia, in Cali (TIME, May 13). But outside Bogotá's La Porciuncula Church the troops stormed the church itself as well as student demonstrators. Just as a priest raised the chalice at the altar, two tear-gas bombs exploded. Eyes streaming, the priest turned to the congregation. "A curse on the tyrant!" he thundered. "A curse upon...
With Rojas aboard a Colombian DC-4 bound for exile in Spain, the junta got to work. Calling in Opposition Leaders Valencia and Lleras Camargo, they began organizing a civilian Cabinet to help govern the country until next year's elections. At week's end, with the list drawn up, Bogotá was almost back to normal. Only one Colombian seemed to have completely missed the significance of the uprising. In Bermuda, where he stopped over with his wife and family, Rojas was asked what caused his downfall. "There was no revolution," he said. "I decided to turn...
Balky Assembly. The brash and impulsive attempt to eliminate Valencia brought Rojas' smooth-running re-election campaign to a stop. Rojas had hand-picked a new Constituent Assembly, and the assembly quickly drew up a bill to suspend the constitutional provisions that a President must be popularly elected and cannot succeed himself. But a dispute between Military Dictator Rojas and his non-military supporters as to whether the Vice President should be a soldier or a civilian slowed the process...