Word: guillermo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would the Liberals give way peaceably to the Conservatives? Last week Colombia's voters reaffirmed the truce by electing as Lleras' successor. Conservative Guillermo León Valencia, 53, with an overwhelming 1,643,020 votes. Valencia is a far different politician from the patient, persuasive Lleras. A fiery orator, flowery poet and crack pistol shot, he once stood up to a dictator's besieging troops armed with a .32 revolver, and by bluster and reputation he drove the soldiers away. Anti-Communist and pro-U.S., he puts his faith in the Alliance for Progress...
...results boded well for the two parties' joint presidential candidate. Conservative Guillermo Leon Valencia, 52, who promises to continue the orderly reforms of Liberal President Lleras, which are beginning to produce results under the Alliance for Progress...
...ball and her peer group rattled the chandeliers keeping time to the Bo Diddley twist combo-and took their refreshments from a mobile hot-dog cart. Some Latino envoys-notably the uninvited-muttered sourly that the'affair was a "profanation" of the OAS building, but Nicaraguan Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa. dean of the capital's diplomatic corps, pronounced it "a perfectly beautiful party...
...recently went on television to say that the "humanism" which Castro espouses is "the work of God himself." Last week, when Castro labor goons followed up the seizure of the pro-Catholic daily Diario de la Marina by grabbing the independent Prensa Libre, Cuba's largest newspaper, Father Guillermo Sardinas rushed to the paper's office to give his congratulations. Said Sardinas, who is chief chaplain of the rebel army: "It was inconceivable that Prensa Libre should oppose the very nation that made it great." Cuba's other six bishops have kept their own council, and Havana...