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...protect the women, permitted them to make their mute protest, then escorted them away to safety. The rebels in the hills were filtering down at night to capture militiamen on lonely guard duty, promising Castro an eye for an eye, a hanging for a shooting, each time an oppositionist was killed...
Bombs at Home. In Havana, Castro went straight to the Presidential Palace for a 2½-hour speech. An hour after he started, an oppositionist showing unprecedented derring-do set off a noisy bomb amidst the meeting. Castro laughed it off: "The moment I started talking of imperialism, the bomb exploded." But he announced a police-state innovation, apparently long planned: a neighborhood spy system set up to "know who lives in each block and what he does." Off went a second bomb and Castro's smile grew wan. "Let us not underestimate the imperialist enemy," he said...
President Stroessner's press censorship is so tight that newspapers refuse to print obituaries unless they are first okayed by police. No public meetings are permitted; police recently forbade a wedding party planned by one oppositionist...
...government of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Distinctly not one of the diplomat types who deem it a simple duty to stay close to the boss, Spanish-fluent Philip Bonsai moved with ease among intellectuals and politicos in Colombia. Among them was Alberto Lleras Camargo, a leading Rojas oppositionist. Rojas put pressure on the State Department and the U.S. eventually withdrew Bonsai, but the urbane diplomat became a hero among Latin Americans as knowing the difference between dictators and democrats. Seventeen months later Bonsai had the pleasure of going to Bogota as a member of the U.S. delegation to the inauguration...
Businessmen were delighted with the victory for free enterprise. Taking defeat with his usual aplomb, Pepe declared: "I showed them how to run a country; now I'll show them how to oppose." First task for Oppositionist Figueres: patching up differences with maverick Rossi, who perhaps drained off enough votes to ensure Echandi's election. In the new Congress, Pepe will have 19 seats, to 19 for the two factions behind Echandi. Rossi, with five seats, holds the balance of power...