Word: anas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...held at least seven important posts, and had presumably a great future. As they sifted Shcherbakov's political ashes last week, however, Russian specialists in the outside world noted one striking fact: he was involved during the war with a clique of Communists which included Rumania's Ana Pauker, Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Slansky, France's Charles Tillon, two of them recently cast into disfavor and one of them-Slansky-executed...
...Brother 35. Pauker was out. In Ana's native Rumania there had been another...
...Portrait of Ana Merida, a ballet dancer...
Beefy, bustling Chichi Remón long ago erased the word mañana from his personal operations. He joined the police, Panama's only armed force, in 1931, and immediately began moving up. After wartime training in the U.S., he became police chief and his country's strong man in 1947. Since then, he has made and unmade five Presidents. When one of them tried to ease him out of his job in 1949, he fired the President in a pre-dawn coup. Prosperous (from cattle and other private interests) and powerful, Chichi was content to stay...
...word mañana will be erased from our administration," Panama's new President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón told a crowd of 20,000 Panamanians in his inaugural address last week. Taking over a government that is $40 million in debt, Chichi promised a brisk, businesslike administration, fairer and more efficient tax collections, and a realistic budget that would permit Panama to live within its means. Most of those means are derived from the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal, which bisects his tiny (pop. 805,000) isthmian country; the new President said that cordial relations with...