Word: diaz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first mention of Diaz Ordaz as the P.R.I, candidate, the Communist weekly Politica printed a grotesque cover photo of him, with the caption: "He will not be President." Though most far-leftists within the P.R.I, are still against him, some who had bitterly opposed Lopez Mateos, have decided to play it cool and support the more conservative Diaz Ordaz...
...phrase, "Quién es el tapado?"-Who is the hooded one? In other words, what man was the all-powerful Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) secretly choosing to be the country's next President? Last week the guessing was over. The P.R.I.'s choice is Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, 52, Secretary of Government in the Cabinet of incumbent President Adolfo López Mateos. Diaz Ordaz' title obscured his real importance. As a combination Interior Minister and Home Secretary, he is López Mateos' right-hand...
Guided Democracy. Barring accidents or acts of God, the rest is foreordained. Next week Diaz Ordaz will be formally nominated at the party convention; he will then "campaign" for six months, showing himself from the back of an open truck in every important town. In elections next July, against two or three hapless opposition candidates, he will win the presidency with some 80% of the popular vote. On Dec. 1, 1964, he will take office from President López Mateos...
...City in the bloody 1910 revolution. In those days, 835 rich families controlled 97% of the country's cultivated land. But not for long. In 1913, leading a band of armed riders, Revolutionary Major Lucio Blanco seized the 370-acre estate of a nephew of deposed Dictator Porfirio Diaz. Blanco divided the land, and seven campesinos were ushered to their new property. That was 50 years ago this week...
Among other forebears of the Queen, not all recognized by Burke's, are Shakespeare, three clergymen, an innkeeper, Frederick the Great of Prussia, a plumber, and Spain's11th century hero, Rodrigo (El Cid) Diaz de Bivar. Elizabeth's surviving kinsfolk include eight-year-old Kira Alexandrine Harris of Amarillo, Texas...