Word: hern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizens with a firm grip on French and British history may remember, when it comes to Mexico, little more than the cinema-celebrated names of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, and the conquistador Hernán Cortés. Few are aware that in the past three decades Mexico, historically unstable (see box), has stirred itself, put away its pistols and begun an explosion of industrialization that has pulled one-third of the once-somnolent population into a new middle class...
...though he had to read of his success to believe it, the strongman ordered every newspaper in Venezuela to print frontpage editorials denouncing the uprising. Quick to refuse was the Rev. Jesús Hernández Chapellin, editor of the Roman Catholic daily La Religión. Pérez Jiménez jailed the priest, kept him jailed even after the government canceled its order to the press. At week's end, shorn of the belief that the armed forces were 100% behind him, and battling the Catholic Church, the pudgy dictator wore an unsettled look strangely...
...struggle to pull Bolivia's economy back from the brink of ruin. President Hernán Siles Zuazo has had solid cash backing from the U.S. One day last week, surrounded by members of his Cabinet. Siles strolled through the sunshine from the presidential palace to the Congress building. There, in the first state-of-the-nation speech since his inauguration a year ago, President Siles made the unusual gesture of giving heartfelt public thanks...
This was gratifying news for President Hernán Siles Zuazo, who has backed the program with everything from a hunger strike to threats to resign, and for George Jackson Eder, an old Latin America hand who left International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. to supervise Bolivia's National Monetary Stabilization Council. But Juan Lechin, executive secretary of the powerful workers' confederation, was looking out for labor and labor alone. At the confederation's second congress last week, he burst into an impassioned defense of the featherbedding privileges that the workers took for their own after bringing the Nationalist...
...same homicide of his confederate. That conviction was reversed. Arguing for Griswold Club, Edward G. Bauer 3L and Clark L. Wagner 3L maintained that the second trial was a violation of the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment. W. John Kennedy 3L and Daniel F. O'Hern 3L of Kaplan Club contended that the Constitution did not bar a retrial of Blair's case...