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When twice-divorced Angie Duke be came a Roman Catholic and married the beautiful granddaughter of a Spanish mar quis, their delight with "El Duque" was complete. It was not unusual for President Oscar Osorio himself to drive up unannounced to the embassy and take potluck luncheon with the Dukes...
After retiring from office last December, ex-President Miguel Aleman wound up some of his more pressing personal affairs in Mexico City and went off to relax under the pleasure domes of Paris. As General Leon Osorio began shooting off charges back home that his administration had siphoned off about 7 billion pesos ($800 million) of public funds, some observers in Mexico City suggested that Aleman had retired to Europe for substantially the same reason his good friend Bill O'Dwyer had settled down in Mexico...
...Salvador. Following a 1948 revolution, Lieut. Colonel Oscar Osorio, the local Strong Man, beat out an army rival for President at the first universal suffrage election ever held in this little republic of coffee and volcanoes...
...Osorio resigned as junta boss last October to run for elective office. Uncomfortable in civilian clothes, he campaigned from the patio of his cream-colored house in San Salvador, let others take the stump. Shrewd Politico Osorio figured there would not be much to argue about anyway, since coffee prices had soared high enough to please every planter, and the junta's friendliness toward unions had sewed up the workers' vote...
...only issue his opponents could dredge up was the old charge that Osorio, whose face resembles the broad, brown Indian features of ex-Dictator Maximiliano Martínez, is in fact Martínez' illegitimate son. In a country where little stigma is attached to bastardy, this campaign flopped dismally. Osorio denied the charge, explained good-humoredly: "All us Indians look alike...