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Will of the Majority. Last February, 400 officers stood on the Maiquetia airport tarmac to see Betancourt off on a trip to visit President Kennedy in Washington. Ignoring protocol, Betancourt shook hands with one and all. On his return, he told 1,200 officers all about the trip. Last month, when Castroite terrorists tried to wreck the presidential election, Defense Minister General Antonio Briceño Linares went on radio and TV with an election-eve speech: "There will be no disorder, there will be no civil war. Only the will of the majority of Venezuelans will exist...
...things turned out, most of the precautions seemed superfluous. Intermittent rain was falling at Caracas' Maiquetia Airport when the Kennedys arrived. They had to huddle with President and Mrs. Betancourt under big blue umbrellas. "I am proud to be the first U.S. President to visit here," said Kennedy to a crowd of 300-all meticulously screened before they were allowed on the airport premises. Responded Betancourt: "The case today is one of a United States President who is rectifying a long period of ignorance and lack of comprehension of the problems of Latin America...
...schedule took the Kennedys on a 25-mile drive from Maiquetia Airport through Caracas to La Carlota airport, where helicopters took the party to an Alliance for Progress ceremony in a Venezuelan village. Between the airports, the crowds were small but well-behaved. In Caracas itself, the motorcade rolled unmolested down Avenida Sucre, where Nixon's limousine had been stopped, stoned and spat upon...
Most of the evidence marshaled by Venezuela came from testimony of captured plotters. As they told it, a C46 cargo plane took off June 17 from Caracas' Maiquetia airport carrying four passengers, including a self-styled Venezuelan general named Juan Manuel Sanoja. As the plane neared Ciudad Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Sanoja instructed the pilot to radio the message: "Advise the Generalissimo that General Sanoja is aboard plane. Also advise Colonel Abbes Garcia...
Before switching to his private plane at Caracas' Maiquetia Airport last week, he chatted in Spanish with a friendly crowd of 200 diplomats and newsmen. Was he out to beat Vice President Richard Nixon for the presidential nomination? "I'm not running against him or anyone else now," he said. Was he sent to improve U.S.Venezuelan relations? Rockefeller laughed. "No," he said...