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Earnest, persuasive Communist organizers spread out through Caracas slums last week while Red intellectuals addressed classrooms and civic clubs. Their aims: trebling party membership, raising a $150,000 fund to finance party newspapers, and running an intensive "educational, political and ideological campaign among the Venezuelan masses." At a round-table meeting in Caracas, Communist Boss Gustavo Machado sat down cheerily with the leaders of Venezuela's four other parties. His aim: to get an important hand in naming a single unity candidate for President in the November election. Pouring into the political vacuum left by the January overthrow...
...members and are riding the crest of the post-dictatorship leftward swing. Larrazábal, it seemed, intended to do just that. Said the admiral at his press conference: "Maybe I am naive. But I feel our Communism is a different Communism. Because of his rich patriotic heritage, no Venezuelan would accept orders from abroad." Such full-gushing benediction of Venezuela's bumptious Communists did indeed show an ideological naiveté. But it showed also a practical shrewdness that any man who hoped to become President of Venezuela should certainly possess...
...join with the overwhelming majority of Venezuelans today in sincerely regretting the violent attacks against the Hon. Richard M. Nixon. Such reprehensible acts do not in any manner express the feeling of the Venezuelan people, because they were carried out by hoodlums and irresponsible teenagers, mostly juvenile delinquents, who have taken abusive advantage of the climate of freedom of expression and reunion that has marked all the acts of the provisional government of this country. I am deeply saddened...
...Under the letter of the law there was no way to bar their entry, for neither had ever belonged to an organization unfriendly to the U.S., as specified in the McCarran Act. As political refugees, they had merely requested the same asylum that had been previously granted to other Venezuelan politicians, many of whom are now back in their own country. Perez Jimenez stayed close to his floodlighted Miami Beach hideaway (TIME, April 21), broke his seclusion for the first time last week to blame Nixon's violent reception in Caracas on the Communists, and to say that...
...send Perez Jimenez on his travels will most likely require a formal extradition petition from the Venezuelan government. And despite public anger over the ex-dictator's U.S. refuge, Venezuelan authorities seemed in no hurry to present such a petition...