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...other junta members, more responsive to the sentiments of old-line army men who remember bloody clashes with the Apristas in the 19305, were not so sure. But Peruvians outside the barracks, particularly Haya's main rivals-nationalistic Architect Fernando Belaúnde Terry and ex-Army Strongman Manuel Odria-insisted that the promised elections be held. Under this pressure, the new three-man junta renewed its "unswerving decision to hold elections next June 9." New President Lindley, who cherishes no affection whatsoever for Haya and APRA, felt compelled to announce that "so far as I know, there...
...City. "We'll go into it when I get back." They did, opening Latin America's first tienda de descuento in Mexico City. Today, having been paid the flattery of imitation by dozens of other Latin American stores, the pioneering Arango brothers-Jeronimo, 37, Placido, 32, and Manuel, 26-are Latin America's biggest discounters, with 1962 sales of $16.6 million. This week their Almacenes Aurrera, or Forward Stores, are opening a seventh store in Mexico City, and have set a May opening for their eighth and biggest, a $1,200,000 store in the city...
That statement of the case sounded pretty firm and final-except that it contradicted the accounts of many other people, including some members of the Bay of Pigs expedition. One of them, Manuel Penabaz, charged a few weeks ago that "we were betrayed." The invasion's leaders, he said, "had been assured of U.S. air cover." Dr. Manuel Antonio de Varona, a member of the Cuban Revolutionary Council, insisted that the U.S. had indeed assured the invaders of "full air control," though another invasion leader, Manuel Artime, declared that no U.S. air support had been promised. Adding...
...slow-moving Spain, change of any kind is rare and reluctant. Yet, almost imperceptibly the regime is beginning to relax its iron grip on society. Since his appointment as Franco's Information Minister last July, Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 40, has boosted the daily ration of radio news from four to 18 broadcasts a day and for the first time allowed Spanish listeners a comparatively broad sampling of world events...
Those unbelieving words, that ecstasy born of anguish, expressed the explosive emotion of the moment. But after the homecoming there remained some hard facts to be faced. What would the men of Brigade 2506 do next? Most were determined to continue their fight against Castro. Vowed Manuel Artime, one of the leaders of the Bay of Pigs invasion: "Our plan is to return to Cuba. We will come back-when or where I cannot say -but we will return...