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Some chanted: "Viva el General! Viva el General!" Others cried: "Thief! Assassin! Son of a whore!" As police held back the crowd of 3,000, the armored van carrying Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 50, from his jail cell pulled up in front of Caracas' Supreme Court building. It had been more than seven years since the pudgy strongman was overthrown, and last week, after well-heeled exile in the U.S. and 19 not-too-austere months in Venezuelan prisons, Pérez Jiménez was finally being brought to trial...
...Hearing that the visitor to her sunbaked village was the top man in the Dominican Republic, an old woman instinctively shouted, "Viva el generalisimo!" Donald Reid Cabral, 41, chief of the country's governing junta, turned and smiled wryly. "Madam," he replied, "I am not even a private...
...himself, explaining to the reader "Platz means place in Jewish and German. It also means to burst." "The Mexican Pony Rider" is also a pseudonym; behind it, an unnamed juvenile delinquent prowls Manhattan, fancying himself a blend of pony-express rider ("Nothing bugged them") and Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata! These formless reveries might make source material for an analyst, who is paid to listen...
...words," said President Frei, "could better sum up the impression of this night than your voices shouting 'Viva Chile! Viva Chile!' We accept this mandate as a great call to responsibility. The party that triumphed is great, but we must never forget that Chile is greater still, and that the government, political parties and men do not exist to serve one government or one man. Rather they exist to serve the country and all Chileans...
...live and love by no rules but my own," said Brigitte Bardot, 30, and the rules of this particular ménage had a certain touch of Bronx Zoo. On location with Co-Stars Jeanne Moreau and George Hamilton for Viva Maria! in Cuernavaca, B.B. set up housekeeping in a sumptuous villa with a whole menagerie of cuddly companions: a dog, a rabbit, two ducks, a chicken, and Playboy Bob Zagury, production assistant on the set, whose off-duty role sometimes gets pretty beastly. "Last night he was very angry," she told newsmen candidly. "The rabbit was very naughty...