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POZZI ESCOT, 42, was born in Peru-at 23, she was named Laureate Composer of Peru-and studied at Juilliard. Sands, her exotic orchestral fantasy, which will be performed at next week's New York Philharmonic concert, was commissioned in 1966 by the Venezuelan government in honor of that country's 450th birthday...
...Either we give our democracy social and economic content or we might meet the same fate that has been met by other nations in Latin America." So said Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez, answering questions about the military threat to democracy in Latin America put by Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and Chairman of the Board Andrew Heiskell. Pérez, the widely-respected President of an oil-rich nation that is one of Latin America's few democracies, was interrupted by martial music from a military band passing below the window...
VENEZUELA: Speeded-up nationalization of foreign oil companies has not helped to hold revenues up. The government has peeled $1.9 billion from next year's budget, reducing it to $7.7 billion. Moreover, the government will make no contribution next year to the Venezuelan Investment Fund, a state-operated venture that funnels capital into such projects as shipbuilding. Last year the fund received $3 billion. But austerity has its limits: President Carlos Andres Perez has just ordered a new presidential jet costing $12 million...
...Palestinian guerrillas. Last week there were indications that Mossad was on the offensive again. In Paris, possibly as a result of a Mossad tip, French counterespionage agents moved in on a sleepy-eyed, Spanish-speaking foreign visitor known only as "Carlos," who had in his possession forged Peruvian, Venezuelan and U.S. passports. He also had an arsenal of explosives and weapons similar to those used in a series of terrorist attacks by Palestinian, Japanese, Turkish and German groups in Europe. As he was being questioned, Carlos shot to death two French agents, as well as a Lebanese informer accompanying them...
...plumber earning $12 an hour, a Jamaican carpenter earning $7 an hour and a West Indian electronics engineer taking in $17,000 a year. An immigration raid on a Miami restaurant turned up 14 illegally entered employees, including a Swiss assistant manager getting $11,000 a year. One enterprising Venezuelan was clearing $750 a week from a construction job on the Alaska pipeline. Immigration authorities in New York discovered two illegals who were making $400 a week -painting the Statue of Liberty. Two illegals, working for a firm under contract to the General Services Administration, were found not long...