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...have completely wiped out," boasted a Paraguayan communiqué, "an entire Bolivian battalion which appeared to have been made up of young students from La Paz...
Five swooping airplanes sent bomb after bomb splashing into a dense wood not far from La Paz in Argentina's northeastern border province of Entre Rios, last week. The bullets nipped off leaves & branches, plopped into tree trunks, but not a man did they hit. Twenty-one provincial police went scurrying into the wood, shouting and firing. Fourteen scampered back. When night fell Argentina's "Three Wild Irishmen"-Mario, Eduardo and Roberto Kennedy-still held their wood. In Buenos Aires Dictator-President General Jose Francisco Uriburu pulled his long mustaches and scratched his head. He could not turn...
Three weeks ago two veiled women, wife and daughter of Bolivia's ousted German army builder General Hans Kundt (TIME, July 7), sped under escort provided by German diplomacy through pointing, jeering crowds in the streets of La Paz. Leaving behind them the General, with cries for his head still ringing in their ears, they fled by motor to the Peruvian border and safety. The General too escaped and is now said to be making for Hamburg. Last week Frau Gertrude Kundt and Fraülein Renate arrived in Manhattan. Said they: ''It [Bolivia] is a terrible...
...looked out of a window of the La Paz club I saw fleeing men and women picked off by rifle fire. ... A friend who had called on me ... tried to leave for his own hotel on Thursday, but every time his head appeared in the doorway police fired. . . . Victims were dragged back out of sight...
...week's end peace was restored and a military government under a General Carlos Blanco Galindo (the army still rules Bolivia) was in power. Ex-President Siles and family were enroute to the Chilean border under escort. General Kundt hid in shelter of the German Legation in La Paz...