Word: harmodio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comfortable, specially equipped cells: one for big shots at Central Police Headquarters, the other for lesser fry in Panama City's Model Jail. Back in 1936, when Temistocles Díaz, publisher of La Nación, was arrested, he got the Class A treatment from President Harmodio Arias-the V.I.P. cell at headquarters...
Last year "Temi's" father, old Domingo Díaz, was elected President. Six weeks ago Harmodio Arias was picked up and charged with complicity in a plot to overthrow the present regime and install his brother, ex-President Arnulfo Arias. But President Díaz failed to return the courtesy Harmodio had shown his son. Harmodio got the small-fry cell at the Model Jail. Last week Harmodio, a sick man, was moved to the hospital. Four days later, Brother Arnulfo was arrested for his part in the plot. This time police had no more regard...
...HARMODIO ARIAS Panama...
...TIME'S readers, including many in Panama, will be pleasantly surprised to hear that "bitter" is too strong a word for ex-President Harmodio Arias' feeling toward his brother, ex-President Arnulfo...
...Enrique Jimenez dared defend the treaty, insisting that most of its opponents "have not even taken the trouble of reading it." The students and their professors, egged on by the Communist-tinged People's Party, stayed away from their classes and planned new demonstrations. Said realistic Assembly President Harmodio Arosemena: "Nobody will vote for the bases when they can look out the window and see 10,000 boys sharpening their knives...