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...horseback and on foot, 300 Colombian peasants in ponchos and floppy felt hats trekked through the jungles and coffee fincas to a settlement in the Andean backlands 25 miles outside Bogotá. The men carried leaflets: "Viva the organized masses!" A Red caudillo, Víctor Julio Merchán, delivered a welcoming harangue, and the stubble-bearded troop responded with a clenched-fist salute. From an equally isolated redoubt not far to the east, a second Red band, commanded by Juan de la Cruz Varela, peddled at gunpoint 1 peso coupons bearing Lenin's picture and the appeal...
...Some you say, 140,000 "have been Spanish-speaking Democrats," you say, "have been registered in Cali-Demo-ornia through the Viva Kennedy Clubs." As the group that actually did the job which you so generously attribute to them, we feel forever justified in screaming like stuck pigs, squawking like young robbed eagles...
...group which set this alltime registration record is the Community Service Organization. CSO is neither a Viva Kennedy, a Viva Nixon, nor a Viva any other politician outfit. CSO is strictly nonpartisan, and it saves its vivas strictly for human dignity, for the rights of oppressed minorities, for their speedy incorporation into all phases of the lifestream of the overall community...
Your good story on our campaign, in the Oct. 10 issue, says: "some 140,000 new Spanish-speaking Democrats have been registered in California through the Viva Kennedy Clubs." The credit for this outstanding job of registration should go to the Community Service Organization, which for a number of years has been dedicated to this work among Spanish-speaking citizens of California...
...reformers complain that Tammany workers will not walk up more than one flight of stairs to seek out new voters. But despite the bosses' roadblocks, Thompson's raiders have done a good job. Some 140,000 new Spanish-speaking Democrats have been registered in California through the Viva Kennedy Clubs. In Baltimore, Thompson's pilot city, 7,000 "unsuspected Democrats" have been uncovered. In Pennsylvania, registered Democrats exceed Republicans, 2,851,000 to 2,812,000, for the first time in recent years. Tabulating the national returns last week, Bobby Kennedy gleefully noted that...