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...efficiently re-elected himself in a one-candidate plebiscite a fortnight before (TIME, Dec. 30), he announced an amnesty for the 3,000 oppositionists jailed during what had passed for an election campaign. Already free-and given 17 days to get out of the country-was Christian Socialist Rafael Caldera, who would have been the Catholic Party's candidate for President had not the dictator jailed him four months ago. Jovially, the President went on to a midnight dinner...
...Desert Rats in North Africa, later, as a U.S. Marine captain, saw action at Saipan and Iwo Jima, as a major commanded a battalion of the 1st Marine Division in Korea, authored the bestselling (2,000,000 copies) war novel The Sea Chase; of cancer; in San Rafael, Calif...
...live in Venezuela, until the U.S. embassy got them off the hook by warning them that they could lose U.S. citizenship if they voted. Also troubled by the one-man election: university students, particularly in Roman Catholic schools, where resentment ran high against the jailing, ever since September, of Rafael Caldera, once the Christian Socialist presidential hopeful. But after a spate of student demonstrations a fortnight ago, most colleges are temporarily closed. "The agitators can only stir up students," said Pedro Estrada, chief of the Seguridad Nacional. "They cannot stir up the workers, because everyone is making so much money...
Ever since Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina seized power in the Dominican Republic in 1930, his enemies have led precarious lives, no matter how far from home they fled. In 1935 a gunman burst into a New York City apartment and killed Sergio Bencosme, onetime Interior Minister of the Dominican Republic. In 1952 Andrés Requena, editor of an anti-Trujillo newspaper, was gunned down in another Manhattan apartment. Last year Jesús de Galindez. author of an anti-Trujillo book, disappeared, and all signs pointed to another assassination. All the while Trujillo complained that he could not understand...
Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's military advisers, seems to welcome the formula that will let it return the country to civilian control. Brigadier General Rafael Navas Pardo, the most militaristic of the junta's generals, has bluntly told all company commanders and military state governors that under no circumstances would the junta continue in office after August 1958, the date set for the inauguration of a civilian President...