Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sukarno, of course, is not really to blame for the program, for it was Military Strongman Abdul Haris Nasution's soldiers who approved the economic purge. But Nasution is happy enough to let Sukarno take credit-or blame-as undisputed "boss." So long as Sukarno is around as a still popular image among Indonesia's masses, Nasution has a buffer between the people's ire and the army. When, as may happen, the masses become disenchanted with Sukarno, Nasution has a readymade scapegoat...
...investment of $75 million and 8,200 new jobs. Great clusters of new brick apartments have risen from abandoned lots. The city's 14th century university has even started a new department: cinematography. "It's astounding that it could all have happened so fast," marvels local Development Boss Antonio Narro de Povar. "We're beginning to look like a little Madrid...
...Lieut. General Camilo Alonso Vega, 76, Minister of the Interior and police boss. Known as "Don Ca-mulo" because of his mulish resistance to change, the white-haired former commander of the Guardia Civil is Franco's strong right arm. He can be counted on to put down trouble wherever it breaks...
...Solis Ruiz, 52, Minister of the Movimiento Nacional, Spain's bureaucracy-clogged official party, and boss of its labor syndicates. His jowls are heavy and blue, his head is bald, and his speech is thick with the accents of Andalusia, but Pepe Solis is probably the sharpest practicing politician in the land. The father...
...Laureano López Rodó, 45, Planning Minister and development boss. So soft-spoken that he appears almost self-effacing, López Rodó is known as Franco's eminence grise - partly because everything about him, including his hair, suit, socks, tie and personality, seems grey. The appearance is deceiving. Son of a Catalan industrialist, he spent much of the civil war as an under ground Nationalist agent (code number: 711) in Republican Barcelona, went on to become Spain's youngest law professor, at 25, and an international authority on public administration. He is an avid...