Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KELLEY San Antonio...
...heart attack at 52-the Union Nationale went up for grabs among Duplessis' old lieutenants. By the time cigar smoke cleared, the party had weathered a Tammany brawl for the succession, and the big French Catholic Quebec province (pop. 5,000,000) had a new premier: Joseph Marie Antonio Barrette, 60, a Duplessis colleague for 23 years and Quebec's labor minister since...
...party that Antonio Barrette takes over is not the same one Maurice Duplessis bequeathed. Where Duplessis endlessly battled Canada's federal government with the cry of provincial autonomy, Sauve had already restored reason to Quebec's relations with Ottawa. He had also stolen the Liberal opposition's thunder by launching overdue reforms that would help shore the party for an expected spring election. His unexpected death after just 114 days in office set the Union Nationale adrift with no obvious leader, raised doubts whether the party could survive a struggle for power, and whether Sauve...
Slush Funds. Despite its sprawling role in the Cuban economy, INRA operates by Castro whim, slush-fund financing and capricious changes in personnel. Explains INRA's day-to-day boss, Captain Antonio Núñez Jiménez, 36, who got the job because he fought hard in Castro's army, and is the author of a Marxist Geography of Cuba: "Accounting is no problem; everybody here is honest." Without benefit of ledgers, INRA has run through $70 million this year...