Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secure in this conviction, he ignores the thrusts of the opposition Republicans, now led by ex-President Ismet Inonu. They charge that Menderes' development has been by impulse rather than plan, point to factories set up where there are no facilities to bring in the coal to fuel them...
In preparation for the 1957 elections, Menderes banned all political meetings except at campaign time-a law that was interpreted so strictly that Republican Party Leader Kasim Gulek was arrested for shaking hands with well-wishers in a village bazaar. (As publisher of the newspaper Ulus, Gulek estimates that he...
Guatemalans have historically been prey to political extremes, ranging from a long line of rightist dictators to the Communists' most successful infiltration of a Western Hemisphere republic. When Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas kicked the Reds out in 1954, he began building a new middle lane in the political road...
The popular favorite was a strange one. An aging survivor of the reactionary 1931-44 Jorge Ubico dictatorship, General Ydigoras, 62, is a hardworking, fluent spellbinder, backed by feudal landlords. Though anticlerical in the past, he casually promised to have a famed Guatemalan priest canonized by the Roman Catholic Church...
Communist Chance. If the Congress should pass up Ydigoras for Cruz Salazar, the general would probably bring his followers out into the streets for riotous demonstrations, in which the Revolutionary Party and Communists might join in order to nullify the election.