Word: comando
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...Comando lo!" Across in Anticoli, there were complications. Local Socialist Leader Carlo Toppi, a jolly, moonfaced sculptor, wasn't quite strong enough to get himself made mayor. During the campaign he had become so excited painting emblems on the town's walls, that he wasn't sure any more that there was a difference between Socialists and Communists. The local Communists suggested that Anticoli needed a mayor with high contacts in Rome itself. Toppi agreed, and Anticoli proudly selected as its mayor a Communist from Rome. His job was that of porter at the Air Ministry...
...while last week, the long-awaited popular revolt seemed to be rising in Argentina. Opposition groups, disgusted with the militarists led by Colonel Juan Domingo Perón, were getting together under the name of Comando Unico (Single Command). Their aim: to throw out all the barrack-room statesmen, set up a civilian government pledged to hold elections...
Counted on Comando Unico's side were party politicians, exiles in Montevideo, important bodies of troops both in Buenos Aires and the provinces. The Navy steamed into the harbor. Communists, Socialists, Radicals were eager to pour their multitudes into the streets. Even the Catholic Church, which has favored authoritarianism on the clerical Franco model, was turning against the militarists. Several high clerics, many humble priests were warning good Catholics to shun them...