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...last two years. Leaving his home one morning, he was greeted by four armed hoodlums, ordered into a white 1962 Chevrolet and whisked away. Soon after, a woman called the U.S. embassy to announce: "We just want him for propaganda purposes. We will not harm him." But then, as Venezuelan police hauled in more leftists, the phone calls turned nasty. The F.A.L.N. offered Chenault as a hostage: the colonel in exchange for 70-odd leftists recently jailed by the government. "Unless our comrades are turned loose," said the voice on the telephone, "we will not be responsible for the safety...
...life in Venezuela. For more than a year, Communists and Castroites have been waging a well-organized campaign of terror to prevent a peaceful national election on Dec. 1. If it is held, Romulo Betancourt will be a long step closer to his proud goal: to be the first Venezuelan President in modern times to have completed his five-year term and turned over office to a freely elected successor...
...ride roughshod. In the Maquiritare language of Venezuela, translators discovered, there is no word for "worthy." So in translating Mark 1:7, they changed one passage to read: "After me comes one who is greater than I. I cannot remove his sandals because he is greater than I." The Venezuelan tribesmen took the sentence literally, visualized Christ as a man of such giant stature that John could not remove his shoes...
...Sears, Roebuck stores in Caracas look a little like fortresses these days, with steel watchtowers manned round-the-clock by battle-ready Venezuelan soldiers. Since last February, Castroite terrorists have bombed each of Sears's eleven stores, and burned down a $2,000,000 warehouse. So how's business? Great. Sears's sales are now running 30% better than last year in some stores. The company is rebuilding the warehouse, adding a twelfth store, and going partners on two new factories to produce furniture and stoves...
Foretaste on Tobago. Swiftly, the wind rose to 75-m.p.h. hurricane force, then, to 90, 100 and 110. At noon on Sept. 30, Flora swept down on the island of Tobago, the legendary land of Robinson Crusoe off the Venezuelan coast. Entire plantations of coconut palms were flattened as by a scythe. It took only four hours for Flora to come and go. In her path she left 18 dead, hundreds injured, some 17,000 homeless, and property damage that helpless authorities estimated at many millions...