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...first week of freedom after the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. The handsome navy chief, setting the pace for his five-man junta, spoke in tones of moderation, by week's end appeared to have won the support of nearly every sector of Venezuelan life...
...steelmen who hold most of the U.S.'s $3 billion investment in Venezuela. In the aftermath of the revolt, some resentment had flared against the U.S. for having maintained comfortable relations with the dictator; with this feeling was mingled a reaction against recent cutbacks in U.S. imports of Venezuelan...
Skulduggery & Gore. Besides reassuring foreigners. Larrazabal's speech sparked a warm reaction among Venezuelan businessmen. Every chamber of commerce in the country promptly pledged support. The Roman Catholic Church celebrated a special Requiem Mass for the more than 300 killed in the fighting. As Larrazabal capped his first week by announcing that elections for a constituent assembly will be held before the year is up, presidential elections six months later, investigators began rooting through the ruins of Pérez Jiménez' tumbled empire. Newspapers filled columns with gruesome stories of the dictator's sadistic security...
...Bargains. From six other Venezuelan cities reports filtered into the capital of similar strikes and riots. Troops tried to enforce an emergency 6 p.m. curfew, but fighting blazed on into the night through echoing streets lit by blood-red neon signs. By now the cops and troops were firing wildly at shadows...
While the rioting was going on. Wolfgang Larrazabal, 46, chief of the Venezuelan navy, and eight other armed-forces officers met secretly at a Caracas military academy at 6 p.m., drew up an ultimatum giving the dictator until 10 p.m. to step down. To make the navy's position unmistakably clear, Rear Admiral Larrazabal (pronounced Lah-rah-sah-bahl) ordered nine destroyers to stand off Caracas' port of La Guaira with their guns trained on the shore. Army commanders, sickened by the sight of Venezuelan killing Venezuelan, joined the admiral's bid to end the fighting. Desperately...