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THE WEEK, Page 21WORLDEt Cetera
BALLOT PROTEST
It was the perfect opportunity, urged President Carlos Andres
Perez, for his countrymen "definitely and totally" to repudiate
the aborted attempt last month to topple his government. For
only the second time, Venezuelans had the chance to elect
directly 22 state governors and 282 mayors. People responded,
all right -- by throwing their support behind the opposition.
Voters' rejection of the ruling Democratic Action party was
widely interpreted as a sign of dissatisfaction with Venezuela's
inflated economy and political corruption. Candidates from the
President's party lost four of 11 state governorships.
A WALL OF DEATH
For several hundred Bolivian gold miners, death arrived last
Monday with a swiftness that was quite literally breathtaking as
an entire mountainside collapsed on their heads. More than 150
residents of the town of Llipi were confirmed dead, and hundreds
more are believed buried beneath a 35-ft. wall of rain-loosened
mud that cut through the remote mining camp. Although Llipi is
only 120 miles from La Paz, relief convoys required 15 to 20
hours to negotiate mountain roads. Ten rescuers were killed when
their bus plummeted from a cliff, and a handful of helicopters
fought heavy rains to deliver badly needed food and medicine.