Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ecuador, which gave Nixon two friendly, peaceful days, last week followed up by selling a green two-sucre (11½?) postage stamp, hurriedly engraved in Austria's State Printing Works and flown to Quito. The commemorative stamp bore the Vice President's likeness and the flags of the U.S. and Ecuador...
Adding some of the zing to the stones that bounced off U.S. Vice President Nixon's limousine in Caracas a fortnight ago was Venezuelan anger at the U.S. for sheltering ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez and his tough Security Police boss, Pedro Estrada. Nixon sensibly pointed out that the Venezuelans can have Perez Jimenez back any time they can make out a sound legal case for extraditing him. Last week the U.S. took official action of its own; the Immigration and Naturalization Service instructed its agents to bar Estrada, who left the U.S. a fortnight ago for Europe without...
...merely requested the same asylum that had been previously granted to other Venezuelan politicians, many of whom are now back in their own country. Perez Jimenez stayed close to his floodlighted Miami Beach hideaway (TIME, April 21), broke his seclusion for the first time last week to blame Nixon's violent reception in Caracas on the Communists, and to say that it could never have happened under his regime. "The fact that I was in the U.S. at the time had nothing to do with it," he said. "If I had been in another country they would still have...
...main political beneficiaries of the revolt that ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez last January are Venezuela's Communists. Operating freely since the revolt, they showed their power by leading the spit-and-stone attacks on Vice President Nixon. Last week, in the embarrassed aftermath of the riot, Venezuela's leftward skid split the ruling five-man junta-but left the Reds uncurbed...
...notion that the Communists were a respectable domestic political party rather than part of a subversive international movement. The three military members of the junta, led by Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, gave the Reds free rein on the idealistic theory that checking them would be undemocratic. But after Nixon's life was endangered by Red-led mobs, the junta's two civilians, Eugenio Mendoza and Bias Lamberti, resigned in protest over the easy treatment of Communists...