Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Conservative. Ecuador hustled Flores off to Europe in 1845 with a pension, and underwent 15 years of anarchy. For the next 15, the country was ruled by the greatest Ecuadorian of the 19th century. Gabriel Garcia Moreno hated democracy. He was a conservative, a working Roman Catholic who dressed in black, went daily to Mass and revered Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ; he believed that "only through force may good be attained." But he also despised militarism, gave the country a uniform currency, the first highway between mountainous Quito and seaside Guayaquil, established an efficient treasury...
Behind Vargas' enforced resignation lay President Carlos Garcia's well-justified nervousness about next fall's Philippine senatorial elections. In the two years since Magsaysay's death in a plane crash elevated him to the presidency, high-living Carlos Garcia has become identified with economic mismanagement and governmental corruption; in the Philippine Senate last week a member of Garcia's own Nacionalista Party charged that 16 of the President's intimates, including his son-in-law and two of his brothers, had engaged in large-scale influence peddling. If General Vargas used the army...
...replace Vargas as Defense Secretary, Garcia named Alejo Santos, a ruthless political operator, who piously announced that his goal as Defense Secretary would be to "uphold civilian supremacy over the military...
...Philippines' economic woes have grown, Macapagal has become more and more outspoken in denouncing corruption in the Garcia regime. But effective opposition to Garcia's Nacionalistas is hamstrung by the existence of several major parties in Philippine politics. Besides Macapagal's Liberal Party, there is the Progressive Party, headed by Manny Manahan, another of the bright young men of the Magsaysay era. Somehow, Manahan and Macapagal could never agree to combine forces, and Old Pol Garcia maneuvered to keep them apart...
Last week, returning from a state visit to South Viet Nam, Garcia discovered that in his absence Macapagal and Manahan had got together, agreed to run a coalition slate against Garcia's wallowing Nacionalista regime in the Senate elections this fall. If everything goes well, Liberal-Progressives may merge completely in a year-just in time to wage a fire-breathing presidential campaign against Garcia himself...