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...Venezuela, but it is adept at making mischief. Posing as government narcotics agents, several F.A.L.N. members last week abducted visiting Spanish Soccer Star Alfredo Di Stéfano, 37. From a hideout in Caracas the F.A.L.N. issued bulletins, even held a press conference to exhibit their prisoner, while Venezuelan police scurried helplessly about looking for them. Finally, 56 hours after his abduction, Di Stéfano was released unharmed. On the street the first cop he approached refused to believe he was really Di Stéfano...
...ineptitude of the police is a sharp reversal of the days of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, when Venezuelan cops, although quick to torture political prisoners, at least caught crooks and hoodlums. But after the revolution of 1958, Venezuelans-fed up with ten years of police brutality-opted for heavily diluted police authority. Today, rather than one central police force, Caracas has six-all with different bosses and varying assignments. Cooperation is a sometime thing. Last week, after four men held up a Pepsi-Cola warehouse seven miles outside Caracas, an employee pursuing them down the highway...
When he escaped to Florida after the 1958 revolution, P.J. used part of the fortune he piled up as President to buy himself and his wife a $225,000 mansion in Miami Beach and settled down for a nice palmy retirement. A year later, the unexpected occurred: the new Venezuelan government wanted him back to stand trial on charges of embezzling $13.5 million. The country's new President, Romulo Betancourt, a onetime Marxist who has since moved to the center and who had lived many years in exile, knew the benefits of benevolent asylum; but he was also convinced...
...Last December, a U.S. Court of Appeals finally ruled that Venezuela had grounds for extradition, and Perez Jiménez was clamped in Miami's Dade County jail. Early last week Secretary of State Dean Rusk signed the extradition order, and Venezuelan security men hurried to Miami to take P.J. home. But his talented lawyers still had a few delaying moves left in their briefcases...
...Venezuelan agents promptly loaded him aboard a chartered DC-6B, flew him home to a maximum-security cell in San Juan de los Morros prison, 50 miles southwest of Caracas. Though P.J. kept telling anyone who would listen that he would be killed when he got home, President Betancourt promised that he would be treated "just like any common criminal, and will be given the same rights...