Word: juan
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Among the "thousands" (a highly doubtful figure) who were executed there were several hundred Batistiano army officers and police chiefs-by no means idle dissenters. Jaccbo Arbenz and Juan Bosch know that these legally appointed criminals are always the first to topple any leftist government. These are the various factions which the Magaralos feel should have been given a "voice," together with the millionaires, the latifundistas, those who held high jobs in American businesses, and the landlords. Perhaps it is better for Cuba that these "dissenters" have left...
Military repression is no novelty in South America. But in Peru, where press freedoms have gone relatively unchallenged for nearly 50 years, the latest muzzling came as a surprise. Following the same course that Dictator Juan Perón took in seizing Argentina's La Prensa in 1951, the junta declared that the two expropriated newspapers would be turned over to a staffers' union and cooperative. As La Prensa learned nearly two decades earlier, the move was not so liberal as it might have seemed. Not only must the union rely on junta funding, but the reporters...
...each other. A. Price Woodard. the incoming black mayor, insists: "I have faith in the white community. We are too prone to complain." But other blacks see Woodard as more of a white representative than a black one and consider his faith naive. "Wichita is built on hate," says Juan Kennedy, a 19-year-old Wichita State freshman. "Hate and fear. Whitey gives up as little...
...kidnaping technique has proved to be a startlingly effective way of springing political prisoners. Equally important, it has brought worldwide attention to Latin America's urban guerrilla bands and the generally conservative regimes that they oppose. As long ago as 1958, Fidel Castro's Cuban guerrillas seized Juan Manuel Fangio, the Argentine auto-racing champion, then freed him after a tide of publicity. In the early 1960s, kidnaping was widely used by rebels in Guatemala and elsewhere to raise funds, but the victims were rarely foreigners...
...slump has sobered many of the tourist magnates. Sam Schweitzer, president of the El San Juan Hotel, says: "Next season we may have to take a tough look at ourselves." If that does not result in lower prices and less gouging, there may be nobody else to look...