Word: venezuelan
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Humphrey, like Keating, singled out Venezuela as one of the Latin-American countries most gravely menaced by Communist subversion. The Senate majority whip said Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt, due here Tuesday on a state visit, should be given assurances that the U.S. would not tolerate any sort of attack on his country...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb. 17--The hijacked Venezuelan freighter under chase by U.S. and Venezuelan warships stopped tonight near an island off the Brazilian coast...
...Down with Betancourt." In the crowd was TIME Correspondent Moisés Garcia, who was invited to ride with Larrazábal on the triumphant trip into Caracas. In the crush, Larrazábal's aides pulled Garcia in through a rear window while two Venezuelan National Guardsmen yanked on his legs to keep him out. Garcia was an eyewitness to the enthusiasm...
...sabotage. Just last week saboteurs, acting on Castro's orders, touched off explosions in Venezuela that damaged four key power stations in the rich oilfields along Lake Maracaibo (see THE HEMISPHERE). As if this were not enough, the Communists at week's end blew up four Venezuelan pipelines. Such acts, presumably, were the sort that President Kennedy had vowed to answer by invasion. Yet, as of last week, there was no U.S. protest or action...
...daily) by almost half. On a well platform 300 ft. from one of the damaged transformer stations, Creole workers found two men still alive but horribly burned-victims of their own sabotage. A third man was found dead in the water. Police identified all three as members of the Venezuelan Communist Party. It took Creole three days to restore normal production. Then the Reds hit again-this time blowing up three important U.S.-owned pipelines 160 miles east of Caracas...