MEXICO: Lombardo Out

The cause of President-reject General Juan Andreu Almazán sputtered like a discouraged short circuit last week. Loyal Almazanistas insisted that their leader would arrive in the capital by month's end, that he was ready in Mexico for a mysterious "strategy junta." But the Almazan camp in San Antonio was dismally inactive. In Mexico City a band of 500 men & women waving the green flags of Almazanismo tried to rip down a poster proclaiming General Manuel Avila Camacho President-elect of Mexico, was quickly broken up by a squad of motor cycle police....

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