Word: misael
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Last week when Colombians went to the polls to choose a successor to President Carlos Lleras Restrepo, a Liberal whose four-year term ends in August, the price of poor memory was near chaos. The early favorite was Economist Misael Pastrana, 46, the "official" Conservative party candidate under the National Front system. The Front was created in 1958, when the warring Liberal and Conservative parties sought to defuse Colombia's explosive politics by passing into law a unique arrangement: until 1974, the parties could campaign for the presidency only in alternate election years...
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