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...Honduras, a six-member committee investigating the bribe concluded that the recipient had been former Economy Minister Abraham Benna-ton Ramos. He and Honduran Chief of State Oswaldo Lopez Arellano were both ousted from office last month in the wake of the scandal...
Early one morning last February, Eli M. Black, 53-year-old chairman of United Brands Co., plunged to his death from his 44th-floor Manhattan office. Early last week General Oswaldo López Arellano, 53-year-old Honduran chief of state, was overthrown in a bloodless coup. The link between the two men was an alleged $1.25 million bribe that is now being investigated by both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a Honduran commission...
...which had learned the results of the SEC probe, extracted from United Brands a public admission that last year it had paid a $1.25 million bribe to a high official in Honduras-and speculation immediately centered on none other than the chief of state of the country, Oswaldo Lopez Arellano. The bribe was offered in order to win a reduction in a 500 export tax on every 40-lb. box of the bananas that United Brands grows in Honduras and sells in the U.S., mostly under the "Chiquita" trademark. The company's statement said that Black had authorized...
...high-ranking military officers have resigned from the Cabinet. To prove to his countrymen-and perhaps to himself-that he still enjoys the confidence of the military, Allende included two new officers in the reshuffle. To replace Admiral Raúl Montero as Finance Minister he appointed Admiral Daniel Arellano, and Four-Star General Rolando González became Minister of Mines. To the position of Minister of Defense, Allende named a civilian, Orlando Letelier del Solar, until recently Ambassador to Washington. The sensitive post of Interior Minister fell to Carlos Briones, a close personal friend. Briones, as it happens...
When it comes to staging military coups, Honduras' swarthy Army Commander General Oswaldo López Arellano, 53, has had plenty of on-the-job training. In 1963 he overthrew the liberal government of Dr. Ramón Villeda Morales in order to end what the general described as "flagrant violations of the constitution." López's eight-year rule was notable mostly for the four-day "football war" with its neighbor El Salvador in 1969, a skirmish that started after Honduras claimed that its honor had been insulted during a soccer game between the two countries...