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- THE WEEK, Page 21WORLDEt Cetera
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- BALLOT PROTEST
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- 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.
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- A WALL OF DEATH
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- 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.
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