Word: ctor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stronger." In his downtown headquarters, Rebel Leader Caamaño reacted to all this with hoots of derision. With his chief lieutenant, Héctor Aristy, he spent the week posturing before newsmen, claiming 47,000 men under arms in the rebel zone (the figure is closer to 12,000) and proclaiming, "We are growing stronger every day." While the rebels denied that Communists were among their leaders, they were calling loyalists gusanos, meaning worms, a favorite Castroite term. And if they were genuinely interested in peace, they showed little sign...
...against the government has long been a national sport in Bolivia. And denouncing subversive plots-real or imagined-is the government's favorite way of knocking off political enemies. Last week Air Force General René Barrientos, 45, head of the military junta that ousted President Víctor Paz Estenssoro last November, was suddenly crying plot as if he had invented the game. Barrientos' troops rounded up 26 of the ex-President's supporters and disarmed the 2,000-man national police. The cops, fumed Barrientos, while calling for reorganization of the force, were...
...same reason-to maintain its Havana embassy where some two dozen anti-Castro Cubans are currently in asylum. Chile's problem was its nip-and-tuck September 4 presidential election; a vote for sanctions might hand the presidency to a far leftist. As for Bolivia, President Víctor Paz Estenssoro has been winning his fight against his country's far leftists, but still did not feel strong enough to go along with the majority...
Bolivian politics is a game of Byzantine intrigue in which only the master of sly maneuver can hope to survive. In and out of office, the master for the past dozen years has been moderate President Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 56, a pale, impassive economist whose term ends this year. After fending off successive threats from an old foe on the far left and a rising political figure on the right, Paz has now paved the way for almost certain re-election...
...Colombia was not required to surrender Peru's leftish leader, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, who had taken asylum in the Colombian embassy in Lima...