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...elections were off. To back up its decision, the S.E.U. called in a squad of blue-shirted bullyboys from the Falange's Centuria de la Guardia de Franco (Centurions of Franco's Guard). When indignant students tried to march on Law Dean Manuel Torres López' office, Falange sticks and clubs swung. The centurions were chased from the law school. Students tore down the bulletin-board notice and destroyed the Falangist arrows above a commemorative plaque to student war dead...
Franco also gave the government-controlled newspapers and radio their line. The Falangist Arriba editorialized: "Blood is running again among the youth of Spain," blamed "armed liberalism motivated by Communism." But Spaniards were not deceived. The government announced that Dean Torres López had been fired, while Rector Laín Entralgo was reported ousted. Seven student ringleaders were reportedly exiled to places 200 miles from Madrid. The names of the youths, all respectfully referred to by the title of Don, showed them to include the son of one of the founders of the Falange, the nephew...
ARTHUR PAUL LÓPEZ South San Francisco...
Almost by default. Chaves has become boss of one of the Americas' most complete dictatorships. After the presidency had changed hands four times in a year, Chaves, a self-educated lawyer and lifelong politico, engineered a coup that put bumbling Dr. Felipe Molas López, a 50-year-old dentist, in power in 1949. But even Don Federico could not stand the dentist long; in another coup, he installed himself as President. That was enough coups, he decided; next year he had himself elected...
...week's end, perhaps the best indication of the tension in Bogotá was the fact that Liberal ex-President Alfonso López and Liberal Chieftain Carlos Lleras Restrepo, whose houses had been burned by the same mobs that sacked El Tiempo, took asylum in the Venezuelan embassy...