Word: ctor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken the highly unusual step of voluntarily resigning as President, after allowing the people to choose-by ballot-his civilian successor. In a remarkably candid interview with TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath in Buenos Aires last week, Lanusse explained why he turned the reins of power over to Héctor Cámpora, the protégé of ex-Dictator Juan...
Hardly anyone expected that Héctor Cámpora, the mild-mannered ex-dentist hand-picked by Juan Perón as his movement's candidate for President, would easily unite the fractious Argentines. Few, though, expected that potentially explosive trouble would break out on the day of Cámpora's inauguration as the country's first elected chief of state since...
...Buenos Aires, Rogers' itinerary was received so late that at week's end the U.S. embassy had been unable to arrange a meeting between Rogers and President-elect Héctor Cámpora. Rogers apparently lacks the rank to attend some of the diplomatic functions for Cámpora's inauguration this Friday; he has been shunted off to a Saturday luncheon served for lesser lights...
Rushing from his airliner at Rome's Fiumicino Airport last week, Argentine President-Elect Héctor Cámpora shouted: "?Hola, General!" Replied a tall and tanned Juan Perón: "Congratulations, Héctor!" Then the two old politicians embraced, tears visible in their eyes...
Died. Héctor Garcia Godoy, 49, Dominican diplomat and politician, a candidate for President in the May 16 elections in his troubled Caribbean nation; of a heart attack; in Santo Domingo. A moderate leftist, Garcia Godoy rose to prominence in 1965 as provisional President following a bitter civil war and subsequent U.S. military occupation. Though received with suspicion by both the right and the left, he proved an able conciliator and for ten months kept the country together until it was possible to hold free elections...