Plot No. 1

Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, president of the temporary junta that has ruled Venezuela since last January's revolution, last week took the final step in his preparations for making the presidential job permanent. He resigned to leave himself free to run (against Politicians R6-mulo Betancourt and Rafael Caldera) in the Dec. 7 elections, turning his job over to Conservative Professor Edgard Sanabria, 47, one of the five-man junta's two civilian members. Almost immediately, Sanabria had to deal with his first anti-junta plot.

Five army officers--presumably sympathetic, to Major General Marcos Perez Jimenez, the overthrown dictator--were charged with making plans for a revolution with a group of civilians in a private home in Caracas, and were quietly arrested. Just to be on the safe side, police set up roadblocks and spent the day checking traffic in and out of the city. All of the junta members spent the night in the presidential palace instead of going home.

By this week the plot excitement simmered down, and Sanabria was free to have a quiet chat with visiting New York Governor-elect Nelson Rockefeller.

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