Word: arnulfo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jaunty thin man with the toothy smile had done it again. In Panama's first presidential elections in eight years, demagogic Arnulfo Arias, now 47, had won back the presidency...
...roused to his slogan, "Panama for the Panamanians," and given him the votes to lick Government Candidate Domingo Diaz Arosemena. But this time Arias' slogan had lost its old stridently anti-Yanqui ring. Having been bounced from power in a 1941 coup and exiled through World War II, Arnulfo now talked as though he was ready to strike a deal granting the U.S. air bases in Panama...
...THAT I AM "A BITTER ENEMY" OF MY BROTHER ARNULFO ARIAS. ALTHOUGH I HAVE DISAGREED WITH SOME OF HIS POLITICAL VIEWS, THIS DOES NOT BY ANY MEANS JUSTIFY SUCH ASSERTION...
...TIME'S readers, including many in Panama, will be pleasantly surprised to hear that "bitter" is too strong a word for ex-President Harmodio Arias' feeling toward his brother, ex-President Arnulfo...
Only the students and their professors (five of whom were arrested as leaders) put up organized resistance. Even wily, oldtime Yanqui-Baiter Arnulfo Arias, now campaigning for President (TIME, Dec. 8), had plumped for the deal on grounds that the 600 miles of good roads the U.S. was building to link the bases were just what Panama's underdeveloped interior needed. Besides, President Enrique Adolfo Jiménez had the votes to guarantee National Assembly approval for the agreement...