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When the blunt-bowed oreboat, S.S Bethore, nosed into its mooring at Sparrows Point, Md. last week, the red carpet was rolled out by Bethlehem Steel Corp executives. The ship carried the first load of Venezuelan iron ore (22,000 tons) ever to be brought to the U.S. The ore came from Beth Steel's open pit mine in the state of Bolivar. Bethlehem eventually expects to get 3,000,000 tons a year for its big Sparrows Point steel mill in return for the ten years of work and $50 million poured into the Venezuelan project...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, 41, U.S.-trained (at Fort Leavenworth's Command & General Staff School) head of Venezuela's current military junta; by an assassin's bullet; in Caracas. Through the curious workings of Venezuelan politics, Chalbaud led the 1945 revolution which installed leftish Romulo Gallegos as President, three years later helped overthrow Gallegos, clamped army controls on the country, promised elections (but never got around to them), ruled precariously and without unified support even from the army...
Violent earthquakes last week shook the western Venezuelan state of Lara. Worst hit was the coffee center of El Tocuyo (pop. 8,000), one of the nation's earliest Spanish settlements. Many of El Tocuyo's historic buildings were of solid colonial masonry, but every building in the town was wrecked. First incomplete reports listed 16 known dead, at least 80 injured...
This spring the Venezuelan government closed down leftish El National, the country's biggest newspaper, after a linotyper by purposeful accident described the ruling junta as "the three little pigs." But when even pro-junta El Universal (in its social notes) printed a blast at "tyrants," the junta allowed El National to resume publication. Circulation jumped 3,000 copies...
...stream of settlers is changing the face of the country. Almost every Venezuelan town now has its Italian barbershop and restaurant, its German-speaking innkeeper. San Cristobal has a Russian photographer, Merida a Russian butcher. Near Turen, about 175 miles southwest of the capital, farmers from Andalusia, Tuscany and the Ukraine are tilling new lands cleared for them by government bulldozers. In time, Venezuela hopes, such immigrant pioneers may supply the eggs, fruit and other foodstuffs that the country now imports from...