Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into Manila last week swarmed 1,344 delegates to the Nacionalista Party convention, intent on nominating President Carlos Garcia for a second term and picking his running mate. As with everything that Garcia touches, the convention reeked of money. "No delegates in history were ever as pampered, catered to, wined, dined and 'womaned' as these delegates," said Manila's sharp-tongued Mayor Arsenio Lucson...
Passion for Second. Puyat's passion for second place on the Nacionalista ticket is predicated on the Philippine Constitution, under which presidential tenure is limited to eight years. President Garcia, who took office in 1957 on the death of popular President Ramon Magsaysay in a plane accident, must step down in March 1965 and give the remaining nine months of his presidency to his Vice President-provided, of course, that the Nacionalistas win the November election...
...wheeling and dealing last week could not give Senator Puyat the 60% of the convention vote needed for nomination. On the first ballot, Puyat got 487 votes to 375 for Finance Minister Dominador Aytona, 43, the energetic reformer whom Garcia brought into his administration to crack down on the more flagrant examples of corruption. Two hundred twenty-five votes went to Senator Quintin Paredes, a wealthy tobacco grower from northern Luzon...
President Garcia, glumly watching the proceedings on television, summoned Aytona to Malacañan Palace. Aytona thought that he had Garcia's backing. He learned that he was wrong. Garcia asked him to withdraw in favor of Puyat. To soften the blow, Garcia offered repayment of Aytona's campaign expenses and, somewhat ambiguously, promised "protection" for Aytona's followers. Stunned but defiant, Aytona refused. Garcia's aides were more successful in dealing with Candidate Paredes, who, gratefully accepting $150,000 as reimbursement for his campaign expenses, stepped out of the race...
...meeting was the first Caribbean conference of Christian Democracy, Latin America's newest and possibly its fastest-growing political force, though it has yet to win power in any of the hemisphere's 22 nations. Described by Garcia Bustillos, the Venezuelan Congressman who opened the meeting, as "international but not an International," the Christian Democrats declare themselves dedicated enemies of colonialism, capitalism and Communism. They preach a social revolution that must use orderly and just means. They advocate immediate agrarian reform, demand careful state regulation of corporate profits, and complete labor union, freedom. Says Leónidas Xausa...