Word: betancourt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large contingent of former heads of state-some honorable, some not-who have sought refuge in the U.S. Alexander Kerensky, Prime Minister of a short-lived democracy in post-Czarist Russia, eventually found a home here after his ouster by the Soviets. So did Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, South Korean Strongman Syngman Rhee, Cambodia's Marshal Lon Nol and Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista. South Viet Nam's former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, a resident of California, will be eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship next spring...
...same day, two Roman Catholic Franciscan missionaries mysteriously disappeared: Fathers Michael Jerome Cypher, 35, of Medford, Wisc., a parish priest who had been in Honduras only eight months, and Ivan Betancourt, 35, of Colombia. Now a special investigating commission set up as a result of church pressure has reported that they too were victims of the ranchers' rampage. The commission has charged José Manuel Zelaya (a wealthy landowner), the provincial army commander and two accomplices with murdering the priests...
...investigators' account is grisly indeed. Cypher had been walking into Juticalpa with a man who needed medical treatment. Soldiers arrested and jailed the priest, then took him to Zelaya's ranch. Betancourt was arrested while driving into town and also taken to the ranch. Both priests were interrogated, beaten and shot to death, and their mutilated bodies were thrown down a 120-ft. well in front of Zelaya's hacienda. Seven other victims were found in the well-five who were presumed to be peasant activists, plus two innocent women visitors who had been riding...
...America. More particularly, it also signals the emergence of ebullient, indefatigable "Cap" Pérez (see box page 48) as a Hemisphere states man to be reckoned with. Now 52, Pérez began his political career at the age of 23 as personal secretary to Rómulo Betancourt - then President of the revolutionary junta that ruled from 1945 to 1948. When Betancourt's Democratic Action Party was outlawed in 1948 by the military dictatorship led by Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Pérez spent several years in prison and then in exile. Betancourt appointed...
...years later, Perez became secretary-general of the party, but not until his election last December was he able to free himself from the relative obscurity of his role as Betancourt's shadow...