Word: monjee
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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An attempt on the life of Acting President Tomás Monje Gutierrez touched it off. Just before noon a demented young ex-officer named Luis Oblitas rushed into the Presidential Palace, clubbed the secretary, leveled his gun at the President and shouted, "I'm going to be President...
Tossed into the Bolivian broth last fortnight was white-haired, sexagenarian Judge Tomás Monje Gutierrez, a political moderate who took over as President of the junta. From a window of the presidential palace that overlooked the Villarroel lamppost, he delivered his inaugural speech. Said he, "Whenever you people...