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Rojas himself touched off the show of opposition by a reckless move. His secret police arrested Guillermo León Valencia, the joint candidate of the united Liberals and Conservatives, in Cali, and ordered him to return to his home city of Popayán. When Valencia refused, soldiers quickly surrounded the private house where he was a guest...
...Dead or Tied Up." At midnight of the first day of his imprisonment, Valencia felt a need to consult with the church, which had already given him open support (TIME. May 6). He decided to visit Cali's Auxiliary Bishop Miguel Angel Medina. Friends tried to stop him, but fiery Valencia, his toothbrush mustache bristling, shouted "I am the boss," and stalked out. Marching up to the lieutenant in command, he demanded to be taken to the bishop's palace. The bold move worked; in the course of an hour-long conversation. Monsignor Medina offered asylum...
...morning, Valencia, well-known as one of the best shots in Colombia, learned that the troops were preparing: to storm the house. Fingering a .32-cal. Smith & Wesson, he went to the window. "You will have to take me out dead or tied up," he called into the darkness. "You know the kind of fight I can put up." When news of the impending fight spread through the city, a group of leading citizens dashed to the bishop to protest. By telephone, Monsignor Medina routed Cardinal Luque out of bed. Nervously aware of the church's anger, the government...
Died. Charles Peete, 27, American Association batting champ (he hit .350 this year for the St. Louis Cardinals' Omaha farm club), his wife Nettie and their three small children; en route to Valencia, Venezuela, where Negro Centerfielder Peete was to play winter ball; in the crash of an airliner near Caracas...
...Valencia, Montserrat and Genoa also claim to possess the Holy Grail, but Genoa claims that the cup there was not only used at the Last Supper but was originally given by the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon...