Word: arana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Angier Biddle Duke, 41, tobacco heir (Lucky Strike) and president of the International Rescue Committee, onetime (1952-53) U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, and Maria Luisa de Arana, 34, granddaughter of Spain's Marquis de Campo Real: their first son, second child; in Southampton, N.Y. Name: Drexel Dario Biddle. Weight...
...called the election. Aramburu quietly tightened support for the reforms among his military backers. His Army Minister, Arturo Ossorio Arana, summoned key military men and cited constitutional history to prove that firmer checks are needed on the executive branch. Under the present constitution, Ossorio Arana pointed out the President can in effect legislate by decree during the seven months of the year when Congress is adjourned. He can also remove elected provincial governors and appoint interventors in their place-a power often abused in the past...
Soldier. Rose to lieutenant colonel in artillery and infantry commands under the post-1944 leftist government, with time out for study at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. and West Point. Bvoke with the government after the 1949 assassination of his friend and patron, anti-Communist Colonel Francisco Arana, Arbenz' main rival for the presidency...
...perfectly ordinary automatic bakery oven and exclaimed, "What wonders the Soviets have accomplished!" At the Bridge. By 1948 Arbenz had plenty of money, a smattering of political theory and a firm ambition to be Arevalo's successor. Squarely blocking him was his old revolutionary comrade, Colonel Arana, also a presidential candidate...
...Chief of the Armed Forces, Arana shared authority over the army with Defense Minister Arbenz. Feeling ran high; once the two men, both drunk, faced each other in Guatemala City's Palace Hotel bar with hot words and drawn .455, and only a friend's intervention prevented gunfire. Affable, conservative Arana stood well with the army, and was in the lead for the presidency, when in July 1949 he was decoyed into making an inspection trip that took his Mercury station wagon over a little arched bridge near Lake Ama-titlán. There he and his aide...