From the ninth-floor presidential suite of Caracas' Tamanaco Hotel at 1:30 a.m. (E.S.T.) Thursday, New York Times Correspondent Tadeusz Witold Szulc dictated a two-word cable: "Shipment delivered." His message, received by the Times 40 minutes later, was the outside world's first word that Venezuela Strongman Marcos Pérez Jiménez had been overthrown. By the time the dictator's DC-4 took off at 2:10 a.m. for the Dominican Republic dutifully watched from the hotel's presidential terrace by Reporter Szulcthe Times was making over its first two pages for the big story.
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