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Pipelines & Paintings. The outfit that splashes its F.A.L.N. initials on any inviting wall calls itself the Armed Forces of National Liberation. Its membership -leftist students, disgruntled workers, professional saboteurs and gunmen-may number less than 400, though Venezuelan far left parties claim 60,000 members. Hardly a day goes by without an irritating reminder of the F.A.L.N.'s existence. Last week a main gas pipeline into Caracas went up in a blast of flame; a major bridge on the highway 25 miles east of the capital was destroyed by dynamite; and four soldiers were killed in an F.A.L.N. ambush...
...Enemy. One of the inner-circle leaders of the F.A.L.N. is Gus tavo Machado, 65, chief of the Venezuelan Communist Party and federal Deputy from Caracas. The rebellious son of wealthy parents, Machado spent two student years in jail for opposing Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. He went into exile, first in the U.S., then in France, where he became a convinced and highly disciplined Communist. Returning to Latin America in the 1920s, Machado helped found the Communist Party in Cuba, carried cash and medicines to guerrilla fighters in Nicaragua, worked with the Venezuelan Commu nist Party from exile...
...Marcel Roche, director of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Investigations and authority on tropical medicine . . . Sc.D...
Push-&-Pull. Born in Paris of Venezuelan parents, Marisol is a black-haired, wide-eyed, unmarried woman of 33 who speaks in monosyllabic whispers so faint that by comparison Jackie Kennedy would sound like a cheerleader. She works in wood-logs, barrels and planks that she saws apart and nails together. At times her figures seem to be little more than crude painted cutouts; but their oddball incompleteness and the way painted surfaces suddenly and spontaneously emerge into sculpted forms are meticulously planned. Three dimensions sink into two; two grow into three in a sort of Marisol version of Hans...
...after the publication of his book, Javier went journeying. His leftist friends offered him a free trip to Russia, and Javier accepted. When he returned, he fell in with a group of young Communist intellectuals who met regularly at the home of Poetess Matilde Marmol, cultural attache in the Venezuelan embassy-until last year, when Peruvian police discovered that Matilde, unknown to her government, was smuggling Communist propaganda into Peru. Matilde hurried off to Havana. A few months later Javier went too, as one of 90 Peruvian students offered scholarships in Cuba...