Word: lopez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Vincent Joseph Lopez, 80, svelte American bandleader known for his rendition of a tune called Nola, whose popularity lasted nearly 60 years; following a stroke; in North Miami...
Economic Ruin. Whether or not Mrs. Perón requests a leave, it was apparent that she had already lost much of her power. She staked her prestige -and that of Lopez Rega-on a rollback of union wage claims, but was beaten last month when labor wrested UP, increases of up to 145% (TIME, June 23). That defeat spelled the end for the trusted coterie of advisers on whom she had relied since coming to power...
...Honduras, a six-member committee investigating the bribe concluded that the recipient had been former Economy Minister Abraham Benna-ton Ramos. He and Honduran Chief of State Oswaldo Lopez Arellano were both ousted from office last month in the wake of the scandal...
...investigations that would inevitably follow Black's suicide, United Brands, a conglomerate with 1974 sales of $2 billion, admitted three weeks ago that it had bribed a top Honduran official last year in order to gain lower banana-export taxes (TIME, April 21); suspicion immediately focused on President Lopez. The Honduran commission has not yet unearthed any hard evidence that pinpoints Lopez, but the fact that he was the only official under investigation who refused to allow a review of his foreign bank accounts was considered sufficient grounds for his dismissal. The force behind the coup...
...punishment. A government worker expressed what seems to be the prevailing sentiment about López last week: "I love my general. He wasn't the best President in the world, but he is the best any of us can remember." At week's end Lopez and his family were reportedly preparing to fly off to exile in Madrid...