Word: backlands
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...voice only for emphasis. Yet he comes across as a vibrant orator, striking an emphatic rhythm like an oldtime Democrat. His Texan images are simple but colorful: the stubborn steer, the weak-kneed politician, the businessman cowering in fear of the Government. Connally has the earthiness of a backland tenant farmer's son and the urbanity of a successful international financier. He is clever enough to be self-deprecating at times, but he radiates such an enormous sense of self-confidence and self-mastery as to seem almost invulnerable. Like it or not, the brand of a unique personality...
...belonged to the Castroite F.A.L.N., which gets its training, its philosophy and much of its funds from Cuba. In the past five years, an estimated 500 Venezuelans have gone through Cuban terrorist schools and returned home to kill cops, rob banks, blow up pipelines and make sporadic attacks on backland towns. The guerrillas now have about 600 men under arms. So far they have failed to win much support from Venezuela's peasants, who form the backbone of President Leoni's reform-minded Ace ion Democrdtica party. Yet some 5,000 government troops have rarely been able...
Last week 19 Neshoba County defendants, trailed by 14 defense lawyers, marched into a courtroom in the Meridian, Miss., Federal Building for the preliminary hearing. Looking on was a curious collection of backland farmers in overalls, local Negroes, big-city Northern reporters and a few young civil rights workers-many of whom badly needed haircuts and a fresh change of clothes. The Justice Department lawyer was young (34), crew-cut Robert Owen. At the front of the room sat U.S. Commissioner Esther Carter, a middleaged, Mississippi-born spinster...
...self-proclaimed champion of the masses. But when the cheering stopped last week, the man who got the votes was Marco Aurelio Robles, 58, the government candidate and cousin of President Roberto F. Chiari, who constitutionally cannot succeed himself. In a stunning upset, Robles swept most of the backland provinces and sliced into some urban strongholds where Arias was supposed to be unbeatable. The final count: Robles 134,627, Arias...
...Communists and a gaggle of the discontented have done their best to topple his government. In the economic fallout that came after the corrupt dictatorship's fall, there were many grievances to exploit; Communist-fired mobs roamed the capital; Communist gunmen murdered policemen, started backland guerrilla uprisings, even infiltrated the armed forces, touching off two bloody marine corps uprisings last year. If the Reds themselves were not strong enough to overthrow Betancourt, they hoped to make Venezuela's old-line military officers nervous enough about Betancourt's inability to keep order to do the job for them...