Word: bolivia
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...poisoning techniques, developed with the support of funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development, have been tested successfully, the back-painting in Mexico and Brazil and the cow injections in Mexico. Both methods will soon be extended to other countries, beginning next month in Bolivia...
...Frenchmen were asking themselves that question last week after revelation of the very different attitude that President Georges Pompidou has taken toward two such criminals, one German and one French. The German is Klaus Barbie, who was Gestapo chief in Lyon during World War II, and is living in Bolivia under the name Klaus Altmann (TIME, Feb. 14). Pompidou has been publicly and energetically demanding Altmann's extradition to France. Now the weekly L'Express has revealed that Pompidou, against the advice of his Minister of Justice, last November secretly granted a full pardon to another Lyon...
...right-wing government of Bolivia announced last week that 119 people attached to the Soviet embassy in La Paz were being asked to leave the country. What were so many Russians doing in La Paz in the first place? Well, some technicians had been giving the Bolivians advice on oil and mining, and one man had been serving as conductor of the national symphony orchestra. But what else? Bolivian officials unmistakably implied that the Russians had also been financing leftist terrorist activity. The matter, said Foreign Minister Mario Gutierrez was "a question of sovereignty...
...moment, however, the main effect of Castro's trip has been to accentuate the political polarization in the region. Cuba is still considered a menace by many Latin American governments, notably Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Guatemala. They take his Chilean junket as the signal for a general broadening of a Communist wedge in Latin America...
...being picaresque-a wilder statement will be hard to find. Would a rogue have given up power, position and hard-won laurels to fight in the jungles of Bolivia...