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...supreme decree, Bolivia's seven-month-old military junta last week took the first step to install itself in power indefinitely. "In view of the chaotic political conditions and the inability of political parties to organize themselves for a democratic electoral process," said the decree, the presidential elections scheduled for Oct. 31 were being postponed. No date was set for new elections. Thus, for the moment at least, Air Force General René Barrientos, 45, will continue to rule the troubled Andean nation...
...Indonesia or Bolivia when East Europe is on our doorstep?" So says Berthold Beitz, 51, general manager of Germany's huge Krupp combine. Beitz has been spending so much time behind the Iron Curtain recently that his colleagues now call him "the ambassador from Essen...
...about inferior equipment, Air Force Chief Barrientos invited news men to pick a chute from the same batch that the recruits had used. He then bailed out over La Paz airport. The whole country cheered his courage, and before long he was making speeches calling for reform and denouncing Bolivia's politicians. Then the assassination attempts began. One bomb exploded in his auto (he was elsewhere), another went off under his bed (he was not home), a Molotov cocktail was hurled at his bedroom window (it fell short...
Barrientos was widely hailed for overthrowing Paz Estenssoro's increasingly heavy-handed regime last November. How well he can run the country is another matter. The nationalized mines are losing $6,000,000 annually; workers are threatening to strike for higher wages. Even so, he remains Bolivia's most popular figure. Many of his Cabinet meetings are held at 5 a.m. to give him time to fly off to the backlands for a confetti-splashed fiesta and political rally with the campesinos...
...sailed the wartime Pacific as a merchant seaman, made up for the years of prison-enforced sexual abstinence in a ten-day romp with an American Red Cross girl in Calcutta, worked for Aramco in Saudi Arabia, dug for diamonds in Venezuela, managed five jungle airports for Panagra in Bolivia, became a skilled pilot and a top-rated sports-car driver...