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...Venezuela's staunchly pro-American President Romulo Betancourt. But Venezuela is where Vice President Richard Nixon was attacked by mobs in 1958, and in the days before Kennedy's trip, Caracas leftists again erupted in violent protest. Confronted by the prospect of trouble, both the U.S. and Venezuelan governments took extreme security precautions...
...ostensibly as a communications ship but actually loaded with a detachment of U.S. marines. On his part, Betancourt ordered a roundup of known agitators; some 2,000 were collared and tossed into jail for the period of the Kennedy visit. Betancourt also ordered that thousands of Caracas cops and Venezuelan army troops be posted along the Kennedys' route into Caracas from the airport...
...schedule took the Kennedys on a 25-mile drive from Maiquetia Airport through Caracas to La Carlota airport, where helicopters took the party to an Alliance for Progress ceremony in a Venezuelan village. Between the airports, the crowds were small but well-behaved. In Caracas itself, the motorcade rolled unmolested down Avenida Sucre, where Nixon's limousine had been stopped, stoned and spat upon...
...President Betancourt will no doubt call out all the troops and lock up all the troublemakers he can find. The question is whether he can find them all. Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger played down any danger: "We have plenty of confidence in the hospitality and friendship of the Venezuelan people...
...restlessness in speed; he was flagged down once by Maine police for racing 80 m.p.h. on the Maine Turnpike; another time troopers caught him speeding on a Connecticut parkway near Berlin. Summer vacations Mike worked for a Puerto Rican supermarket or worked as a hand on the Rockefellers' Venezuelan ranch. He knew he would have to settle down, and he pointed toward Harvard Business School and a career in finance. But first, he wanted one real fling. Graduating cum laude in 1960, Mike spent six months in the Army, then signed on with an expedition into New Guinea...