Word: ctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than six months Chile has been the reluctant host to the most prominent and best-heeled band of ex-Dictator Juan Perón's sidekicks anywhere outside an Argentine prison. There was Perón's Chamber of Deputies President Hóctor Cámpora; José Gregorio Espejo, once head of the General Confederation of Labor; John William Cooke, last boss of the Peronista Party; and Pedro Andrés Gomiz, former director of the nationalized Argentine oil industry. But it was two others who were most remembered back in Argentina. One was boyishly...
...strong-jawed newcomer from the Caribbean: fabulous Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, 61, who since 1930 has run the lush, green little Dominican Republic like a private plantation, piling up wealth by the tens of millions and crushing all opposition with iron ruthlessness. Trujillo had left his brother Héctor in charge at home and taken over as his country's chief delegate...
...ctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Latin America's most celebrated political refugee, began his fifth year of residential sanctuary in the Colombian embassy in Lima, Peru. Leader of the outlawed Peruvian leftist APRA party at the time of the 1948 military coup, Haya fled to the embassy pleading the time-honored right of asylum...
...Evita's worldly fame was fading away, Perón took steps last week to settle her considerable fortune. To Europe, aboard an Argentine Airlines DC-6, he sent her brother Juan Duarte and the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Héctor Cámpora. On arrival in Switzerland they were to transfer her international investments to the President's name. Under Argentine law, when a childless woman dies, all her property acquired after marriage must be divided between her parents and her husband. Duarte and Cámpora, however, carried with them-besides a power...