Word: guillermo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night of Tishah Beab-when Jews lament the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in A.D. 70 by Roman legions under the future Emperor Titus-a bomb shattered Buenos Aires' Knesset Israel Synagogue. After that 1947 bombing, Head Rabbi Guillermo Schlesinger wandered in the rubble and said aloud: "What have I done? Why was the house of the Lord profaned?" A black-robed figure stepped forward and answered: "Prejudice, hate and ignorance have struck." His hand outstretched, Father Carlos Cucchetti added: "I come to offer you my sympathy." Replied the Rabbi : "I shall never forget your kindness...
...Senate and 148 Chamber of Deputies seats. The total vote-1,800,000 for all Liberals, v. 1,400,000 for all Conservatives-clearly showed Lleras' party to be Colombia's biggest. In the intra-Conservative election, Laureano Gómez' chief opponent was moderate-minded Guillermo Len Valencia, who played a bold role last May in dethroning Military Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (the man who toppled Gómez in 1953). Of the Conservatives' 40 Senate seats, the Gómez group won (depending on the final count) between 26 and 29, the Valencia group...
MARIO MENDEZ MONTENEGRO, 47, leader of the liberal Partido Re-voludonario (P.R.) that was outlawed in last October's M.D.N.-sponsored quickie election as too Communist, despite the fact that he once went into exile after plotting against Arbenz. Reinstated by the regime of current Provisional President Guillermo Flores Avendano, Mendez Montenegro calls Communists "my worst enemies...
...first election is to be held early next year, and the Congress chosen then will select a President. Presently favored by all but right-wing Conservatives is Guillermo León Valencia, a middle-of-the-road Conservative. He will take office Aug. 7, and the ruling five-man military junta has promised for its part to step out on that date...
...junta turned him down, and named Second Vice President Guillermo Flores Avendaño to take over. Calling the last election "vitiated, because there was no full guarantee to the citizenry of the legitimate exercise of its rights," the junta promised a new "electoral event to normalize the political activities of the country...