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...comeback attempt, Don Pepe delivered 805 speeches in eleven months and visited every town in the country. That performance was a wholly convincing reply to the young critics who questioned his vigor. Of his four opponents, his chief adversary was Mario Echandi Jimenez, another ex-President (1958-62), who accused Don Pepe and his National Liberation Party of Communist leanings. "I am not going to take anything from anybody who has struggled up the economic ladder," said the conservative Echandi. By contrast, Don Pepe directed his campaign to the problems of "the submerged third"-the urban unemployed and rural poor...
Party Squabbles. How the coalition would shape up interested Venezuelans, for the moment, less than what had happened to a party that had almost everything going for it. Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez in the '50s had used the country's oil revenues, its biggest source of income, to turn Caracas into one of South America's most spectacular cities and to refurbish himself as well. Action Democrdtica ousted Perez Jimenez in 1958 and put the oil money into schools, highways, health programs and rural electrification. Venezuela still has a $900 million reserve and the bolivar...
Crime in the Streets. The election was so democratic that even the old dictator was allowed to run for office. Perez Jimenez, now 54, organized a party called the National Civic Crusade...
...stealing government funds. In absentia, he won a Senate seat, a position that will allow him to return home with im munity from civil suits. Eleven of his followers, moreover, have been elected Deputies to Venezuela's lower house so far. Some voters said they voted for Perez Jimenez because in the old dictatorial days, Perez Jimenez' police goons belted the bandits before they had a chance to rob anybody. Under the new democratic regimes, there seems to be more police restraint and crime in the streets, a refrain not entirely alien to the recent U.S. campaign...
...LETICIA JIMENEZ-MAGSANOC Philadelphia...