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...Vibrant, gimlet-eyed Octavio Vejar Vasquez succeeded leftist Luis Sanchez Ponton as Minister of Education. He is a conservative, close to Mexico's powerful Catholic Church. To him goes the praise, and the blame, for abolishing coeducation in Mexican schools. He also recently ordered all schoolteachers to abandon their political activity...
Tantrum. In Manhattan, a policeman complained that when he told Peddler Raymond Vasquez to move along he had thrown himself on the ground and lain there screaming and kicking...
...Popular printed a "translation" of Cortesi's story which omitted most of the evidence, distorted the facts. Genaro Vasquez, Attorney General of Mexico, promptly summoned both newsmen to appear and prove their statements. Burton, in Mexico on special assignment, quietly departed. Last week he was back in Manhattan. Cortesi stuck to his post, presented his case...
...Manuel Contreras shouted: "Justice will be meted out to this prisoner! Justice will be meted out to this prisoner!" but the crowd swept on. A volley crashed out over their heads, then another straight at the leaders. The crowd broke. Dead in the gutter lay Romano Maldonado, 8; Salvadore Vasquez, 14; Vidal Torres, 56. Fourteen others lay wounded...
...Mexican army promptly went into concerted action. In Guanajuato State they ambushed Ramirez the Rabbit, killed him and 21 of his men. They decapitated him and' paraded his head on a staff through the villages he had terrorized. In Durango State, Francisco Vasquez, tougher and smarter than the Rabbit, rode into an ambush but escaped alive. He left behind twelve dead and a new machine gun. Three days later troops met Fermin Sandoval in Guanajuato, killed him and three of his men, paraded his head through the nearby villages, to convince incredulous peasants that Sandoval was really dead. None...