Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran of a previous tour as President (1945-46), Lleras got the National Front started by joining his Liberals with Laureano Gómez' Conservatives to aid a group of fed-up army officers bounce Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla on May 10, 1957. Now Lleras rules under a pact that splits the Cabinet, Congress and local offices fifty-fifty between the two parties...
...pact has not yet spread to the mountainous backlands, where bandits, peasants and landowners continue a bitter Conservative-Liberal war that has killed 200,000 Colombians in the past decade. In the week before inauguration day, two soldiers and 41 bandits died in battle. Lleras in his inaugural speech promised "vigorous pacification." He will have the help of the army, which has served as faithful caretaker, through a five-man junta, since Rojas Pinilla's ouster...
That evening, tacked on as a fourth paragraph, Dulles' penciled promise to back the "security and defense" of all cosigners transformed the London session's communiqué into a "declaration." The declaration, explained Dulles, makes the U.S. a "full partner" with surviving Baghdad Pact members, and could supersede the Baghdad Pact, should Iraq drop...
...Though all defense plans assumed logistic connections across Iraq, and the Iraqi rebels apparently captured a cache of the pact's plans in Baghdad, including lists of agents in the Arab world. Radio Cairo, whose reputation for veracity assays amazing low, has already begun to broadcast what it declares is information from the seized records...
Radio Cairo (quoting Egyptian press): "Let the new name for the Baghdad Pact be the 'pact of traitors,' because all who signed it were traitors...