Word: paz
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Publicity Stunt? The would-be assassin, police soon learned, was not a Filipino but a Bolivian painter, Benjamin Mendoza y Amor, 35, who had lived in Argentina, the U.S., Japan, Hong Kong and the Philippines since leaving La Paz in 1962. He wanted to kill the Pope, he claimed, "to save the people from hypocrisy and superstition." In an interview the next day, Mendoza said that he had first formed the idea of assassinating the Pope "a long time ago," and would try again if he were free. Filipino acquaintances agreed that Mendoza was "a frustrated artist." A New York...
...HAVE come to rule!" cried Bolivia's President Alfredo Ovando Candia last week after a 300-mile dash to his presidential palace in La Paz. While out of the capital opening a new railroad line in the provincial city of Santa Cruz, he got word that a right-wing military force led by his own army chief of staff had seized power, declaring that it would give Bolivians "the destiny they deserve." By the end of a wild week, both Ovando and the rival military men were out. In power, following a seriocomic sequence of coup and countercoup...
...that time was married to his second wife, fell in love with Tania, whom he trained and sent to Bolivia as his advance agent. In La Paz she got a job in the presidential press office and helped arrange the secret arrival of Che and the other Cubans. Then, violating Che's orders, Tania, who was an amateur musicologist and collected tape recordings of Bolivian folk music, went to the hills to live with him. On August 31, 1967, Tania and nine men walked into a Bolivian army ambush. All but one of them were killed. An autopsy showed...
...Paulo, was kidnaped and exchanged for five prisoners who were flown to Mexico. Sean M. Holly, a U.S. labor attache in Guatemala City, was kidnaped and ransomed for one political prisoner. U.S. Air Attaché Lieut. Colonel Donald Crowley was kidnaped and ransomed for 20 political prisoners. In La Paz, Bolivia, Newspaper Publisher Alfredo Alexander and his wife were killed by a bomb that was delivered to their house by messenger...
...Debray "is being re-examined." The French revolutionary is serving 30 years in military prison for his part in Che Guevara's abortive 1966-67 guerrilla campaigns. Should he be freed, Debray, 30, may have a job waiting for him-a safer one. La Paz's "Popular University" of Tupaj Katari is offering him a professorship in Marxist philosophy...