Word: concepcion
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...about the mischief Communists might do in his country. Last week, to "prevent possible Communist crimes," he asked Congress to extend for another six months his emergency power to imprison individuals without trial. By a well-timed coincidence, Gonzalez' police has just arrested 21 Communist labor leaders in Concepcion, and seized documents purportedly proving that the 21 were cooking up ways to sabotage a steel mill, copper, coal and nitrate mines...
...save gasoline (and dollar exchange), put police patrols on the roads to hold motorists down to 40 m.p.h. The government also asked motorists to cut out-of-town jaunts to one a fortnight. Chile's fuel future looked bright. With great fanfare, scientists at the University of Concepcion cracked 150 liters of petroleum from the new Tierra del Fuego fields, pronounced the product excellent...
Throughout Paraguay's five months' civil war, the rebel base had been Concepcion, 130 miles up the Paraguay River from Morínigo's capital, Asunción. Because the Dictator lacked the ships, he was unable to attack the rebels by the river route. Slowly his ill-equipped troops plodded across country. Just short of Concepción they were blocked by the Ypané River barrier, and not until last month did they sweep into Concepcion. Morínigo cried that the war was as good as over. In shabby Asunción, factory whistles...
...Chaco garrisons, which had the best arms, had gone over to the rebels, whose forces dominated Concepcion. So had four training planes and two hydroplanes, which constituted the bulk of the air force...
...kind of an understanding. Wily Dictator Morinigo was reported to have sent emissaries to the rebels. He also sent a mission to Buenos Aires to ask help from Argentina. If Buenos Aires gave him no hope (and there was no indication that it would), Morinigo would talk seriously with Concepcion...