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Characterizations such as "Haya de la Torre, your standard Latin American charismatic type," "Belaunde, the Herbert Hoover of Peruvian politics: and "Furjimoro [sic] known as the karate kid" (Fujimori, the last name of the current Peruvian President was misspelled throughout the entire editorial as Fukimoro) only serve to create a stereotype which depicts Peruvian leaders as being cartoon characters. I hardly believe that Javier Perez de Cuellar (former Secretary General of teh United Nations) and writer Mario Vargas Llosa (who will shortly be a visiting professor at Harvard), both current leaders in Peruvian society, fit stereotypes that the author...
With the military still leery of APRA, a more moderate politician, Fernando Belaunde Terry of the Accion Popular, came to power. Belaunde is the Herbert Hoover of Peruvian politics--the economy took one look at him and promptly plunged into chaotic inflation. When he messily nationalized an oil company and the exteme left started clearing its throat in the wings, the military threw him out of power and took over themselves...
Selected in 1904 as Commissioner and Secretary of Commerce, Forbes rose to Governor-General, until recalled by President Wilson. When the Republicans regained power, he resumed his diplomatic career as Hoover's ambassador to Japan. No wonder Coach Restic keeps hoping for an undefeated season...
...more mindful of that fact than George Bush, who has presided over the puniest four-year growth rate since Herbert Hoover. The Administration is naturally hoping for a solid rebound. But after virtually ignoring the recession last year, Bush now shies away from making any rosy remarks that could haunt him in November. "When you say the recession is over, the public expects the economy to be back in good shape," observes a White House official. "Clearly, that is not the case, and it will not be the case for quite some time...
...than Capone's Chicago. J.F.K. himself, we know, was almost literally in bed with the Chicago Mob, sleeping with the godfather's mistress, for God's sake; his minions used Chicago mobsters as hit men against a rival head of state. He was enmeshed in sordid blackmail intrigues with Hoover; he was implicated in bugging King's bedrooms. Far from a noble peacemaker, he was a hawkish enthusiast for dirty tricks and covert ops, so Machiavellian that -- according to Michael Beschloss's new book, The Crisis Years -- he may even have given his blessing to Khrushchev's building...