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UDK World News
By United Press International
--force officer, his black hair and eyes accenting rugged good looks, Barrientos was a dashing, courageous figure in this drab, mountainous nation of South America.
Bolivian leader killed in crash
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Like a storybook South American, President Rene Barrientos Ortuno flirted with death and lived to enjoy talking about it.
Two of his prized possessions were reminders of the seven attempts to assassinate him. One was a bullet he carried in a shoulder, the other a dented pair of U.S. Air Force pilot's wings that had deflected another bullet heading for his heart.
An accomplished pilot and air
Aura of invincibility
His brushes with death had given him an aura of invincibility, particularly among Bolivia's superstitious Indians with whom he was so popular.
But his luck ran out Sunday. Barientos, 49, and two of his
aides were killed when their helicopter crashed in flames in the interior, where he had been visiting with peasants. The craft's landing gear snagged on a power line. Vice President Luis Adolfo Siles assumed the presidency. Barrientos' exploits were legendary.
He led the revolution that toppled President Victor Paz Estenssoro in 1964, resigned from the governing military junta in 1966 to seek and win
the constitutional presidency in a popular election, and personally commanded troops in the field who eventually caught and executed the legendary Cuban revolutionary, Ernesto "Che" Guevara in 1964.
Politically, he stook up to a European crusade led by President Charles de Gaulle of France against Bolivia's trial and imprisonment of French intellectual Jules Regis Debray, who had been caught with Guevara's guerrilla band.
Pope announces 33 Princes
He survived his worst crisis at
VATICAN CITY Thirty-three men from all over the world will sit back today in their rooms at Pontifical Colleges and religious houses in Rome to await one of the most important moments in their lives.
Late in the morning, messengers from Pope Paul VI will fan out from the Vatican to hand them formal notes informing them they are now Princes of the Church.
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home less than a year ago when his interior minister, Antonio Arguedas, turned over Guevara's field diaries to Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, fled Bolivia and charged Barrientes' government was stacked with agents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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With that distinction will go some of the highest honors of the Catholic Church—the right to act as the Pope's principal advisers, to elect a new Pope and, perhaps, to be the next Pope.
For:
are Archbishops Terence J. Cooke of New York, John J. Carberry of St. Louis, John F. Dearden of Detroit and Bishop John J. Wright of Pittsburgh.
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Four of the new Cardinals are from the United States, bringing American representation in the Sacred College to an all-time high of 10. The new Cardinals
Pope Paul's Consistory, the third of his reign, will be the largest in the nearly 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church and will bring membership in the College of Cardinals to a record 136.
Two secret Cardinals
The Israeli Cabinet devoted its weekly session in Jerusalem to the upsurge in Egyptian military activity along the canal, reliable sources reported.
In addition to the 33 men who will come to Rome, the Pope has announced he is naming two secret cardinals whose names will go to the grave with him unless he decides to make them public later.
Heavy battle erupts in canal
In Tel Aviv, a top Israeli official said the Egyptian army had been placed on a war footing and Israeli soldiers on the east bank were prepared for the imminent eruption of major fighting.
TEL AVIV — A Jordanian military communique said 20 Israeli soldiers were killed or wounded in a heavy artillery battle across the Jordan River near the Dead Sea yesterday.
Egypt reported gun duels almost the entire length of the Suez Canal during the day.
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