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Students of Venezuela's state-supported universities won flunking privileges in the euphoric period following the 1958 ouster of Dictator Marcos Perez Jiménez. The government guaranteed admission without an entrance exam to any high school graduate, and wiped out all penalties for failure except a nominal fee for repeating a course. The result was chaos. While academic standards tumbled, the university became a base for communists and subversives. They were rarely seen in class, and their ages ran well into the 30s. All during turbulent 1963, Castroite F.A.L.N. terrorists took refuge on the campus-which...
...that ancient history didn't bother the voters, who overwhelmingly elected Tito to the National Assembly last month. Running with him as an alter nate Deputy was one Alfredo Jimènez, 33, an old crony who campaigned energetically for both Tito and Arnulfo. In return, he fully expected to be chosen from the elected alternates to sit in for Tito whenever he is away. Since that is often, Jimènez was counting on earning a near full-scale $12,000 annually. But Tito chose someone else as his alternate, and Jimenez was left holding...
...Traffic Light. One day last week, as Tito's chauffeur-driven limousine halted for a traffic light in Panama City, Jimènez leaped from a nearby car, crying, "I won't let you doublecross me!" Jimènez then pumped four bullets into Arias' neck, right shoulder and right side...
...went on with her show in England, took the curtain calls and then flew to Panama. At week's end, doctors were hopeful of saving Tito's life, but one bullet may have damaged his spinal cord, possibly paralyzing him from the neck down. And Jimènez? The word reaching frustrated police is that he is hiding out in the home of another political pal, one who has legislative immunity, and is thus quite beyond their reach...
PEDRO MARTÍNEZ, by Oscar Lewis. With his tape recorder spinning, the author of The Children of Sanchez gets down the biography of another Mexican: a peasant farmer who engaged in one ill-fated political reform after another...