Word: merino
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First noted in merino sheep from Spain, scrapie has aroused furious controversy many times in its 250-year history. It is the best-looking sheep, the kind that catch the judge's eye at shows, that are most likely to be carriers of scrapie. They have unusually powerful muscle development while young, so they are soon bid in as stud rams. Only in middle life (around 3½ years) do the fatal symptoms develop: enfeebled muscles, itching, the shakes...
...Peru, Brigadier General Marcial Merino rebelled with his 10,000-man Jungle Division on the upper Amazon (TIME, Feb. 27), and said, in effect, to the country's other garrison commanders: "I move that we overthrow President Manuel Odria." Strongman Odria hastily shifted several doubtful generals out of high command. By last weekend it was clear to Merino that no one was going to second his motion. In a voice choked with suita ble emotion, he surrendered to the government by long-distance telephone from his headquarters in the river port of Iquitos, then took asylum in the Brazilian...
Waiting Game. General Merino, 51, an able infantry officer, then sat back to wait. His boondocks uprising was shrewdly conceived. By merely proclaiming a rebellion, Merino forced Odria to retaliate or lose his strongman's prestige. But Odria was denied any chance of easy attack. Merino claimed the whole Second (Jungle) Division of 12,000 men (the whole army numbers 55,000 to 60,000). He also claimed the navy's Amazon fleet: seven 200-to 500-ton gunboats, and about thirty 10-to 50-ton river patrol craft. Moreover, most of the troops were inaccessibly camped...
...been booming a wealthy fellow businessman, Pedro Rosello, as an anti-government candidate in elections set for June. Beltran's newspaper La Prensa has loudly accused Odria of plotting to steal the elections for a hand-picked successor. To the dictator, this charge was suggestively reflected in Merino's manifesto. Cops raided and closed La Prensa. They arrested Beltran, Rosello, scores of others...
...dictator then turned back to military problems. At week's end he was reportedly concentrating his eight Thunderjets and 20 Hawker Hunters at northern bases in readiness for an air strike at the rebels. With Merino still sitting tight and hoping for the time factor to operate, it was clearly Odria's move...