Bolivians wanted to forget last July's bloody revolution and its lamppost lynchings. In part token, they had picked for next week's presidential elections two ultra-moderate candidates: Enrique Hertzog, 49-year-old surgeon who fought Dictator-President Villarroel and went to jail for it; and short, balding Luis Fernando Guachalla, 47, ex-Minister to Washington and friend of Cordell Hull. Both had helped run the melancholy Chaco War with Paraguay. (Last week, while the two old-line nominees campaigned in the interior, dissident laborites in La Paz put up a third candidate, General Felix Tavera. He figured...
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