Word: cesar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dressing was sworn in. Ominously, the new leaders took an oath of allegiance not to Chile's constitution but to the junta. General Pinochet headed the Cabinet as President of the junta. Its other members: Admiral Merino; General Gustavo Leigh Guzman, air force commander in chief; and General Cesar Mendoza Duran, director general of the carabineros. The most important portfolio in the new Cabinet−Interior−went to Army General Oscar Bonilla...
...traditionally avoided involvement in politics. But recently Allende took leaders of the three armed forces into his Cabinet. Now military men are moving in and out in a revolving-door scene reminiscent of a Marx Brothers' movie. The first to spin was Air Force Commander in Chief General Cesar Ruiz Danyau. His job as Public Works Minister was to end the month-old strike of 40,000 owner-drivers of the trucks on which the nation's distribution system depends. But in a fishwifely spat with Allende, Ruiz contended that he had not been given the necessary authority...
...Some of them carried the blackeagle flags of the United Farm Workers Union, others a banner portraying the Virgin Mary. They sang hymns in honor of the man whose body lay in the coffin. He was Juan de la Cruz, 60, who had been among the first to join Cesar Chavez's campaign to organize the farm workers of California. While picketing at a vineyard south of Delano, De la Cruz had been shot down by rifle fire from a passing car. Now, at the grave-site in the small farming town of Arvin, Chavez told the strikers...
...refusal to participate in compulsory air-raid drills. This time she was arrested, with more than 2,100 Mexican-Americans and members of the Catholic clergy, for demonstrating on the picket lines of the United Farm Workers in violation of court orders. These have been hard times for Cesar Chavez's UFW. His union, caught in a squeeze between the growers and the more powerful Teamsters, has dwindled from 40,000 to 15,000 members. Compromise talks between the two unions broke off in anger. As for Miss Day, in the Fresno jail, she was told she could...
...resolution passed yesterday modified a strongly pro-UFW resolution passed by the House and the Senate last Wednesday after Cesar Chavez, director of the UFW, was introduced on the House floor...