Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps realizing that his own past ill suited him to unite Peru, Haya offered to negotiate for a coalition government with the man who finished second, Fernando Belaúnde. Instead, Belaúnde cried that Haya had been elected by fraud-an accusation investigated and rejected by Prado's respected Electoral Tribunal. So Haya agreed to give his support to the third candidate, Manuel Odria, an ex-general who had ruled Peru as a dictator from...
...minutes of legal wrangling, swiftly decided that Billie Sol Estes was obviously bankrupt. He ordered foreclosure notices tacked up on everything Billie Sol owns except for the lavish Estes home in Pecos. That same day Billie Sol himself sailed into court, serenely pleaded innocent to a multimillion-dollar federal fraud charge; moments later, his three co-defendants admitted their guilt...
...seat of the ancient Inca Empire, a predominantly Indian nation of 10½ million ruled by descendants of the Spanish conquistadors, was split by a bitterly fought presidential election in which none of the three candidates got more than a third of the vote. Amid cries of electoral fraud and threats of a military takeover, the three proud candidates have been jockeying for five weeks, and no one has given...
Fernando Belaúnde has been crying fraud ever since he finished 14,000 votes behind the controversial Haya de la Torre. Knowing that powerful army leaders fear Haya from his earlier days as a flaming leftist, he counted on the army to rally behind him. He journeyed from the capital of Lima to the mountain city of Arequipa, and after instructing a crowd of 6,000 supporters to raise barricades around his campaign headquarters he demanded the appointment of a "tribunal of honor" to revise the election results- otherwise he would fight. "In case the government does not comply...
...assurances of loyalty from army officers. Lima's Juan Cardinal Landazuri Ricketts also issued an appeal to all leaders to respect "justice, truth and the legal order of the nation." The anti-Haya army generals still blustered, but when the respected National Elections Court rejected the charges of fraud against Hava's supporters, the generals assured the Elections Court: "We acknowledge the power that the constitution and the elections statute confer upon the high and autonomous institution over which you preside...