Word: paz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final lagging returns were being tallied last week in landlocked Bolivia's presidential election, it was clear that the candidate emerging on top was a man who had run his whole campaign from abroad. Victor Paz Estenssoro, 43, nominee in exile of the fascist-like Movement of National Revolution, led his nearest opponent by some 17,000 votes...
Scholarly Paz Estenssoro, onetime Finance Minister and M.N.R. boss, fled to Argentina after the 1946 revolution, when a La Paz mob strung up the bullet-riddled body of M.N.R.-backed Dictator Gualberto Villarroel from a lamppost. Since then, Paz has lived mostly in Buenos Aires and Uruguay. Political confusion and economic difficulties at home paved the way for his startling comeback. But he did not win the absolute majority required for direct election. Congress, meeting in August, must now choose a President from among the three leading candidates (one of whom was backed by the present government...
...important figure who had not taken part in the government's closure of La Prensa was its owner and editor in chief, Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz. The morning after the takeover, Gainza Paz sent off a defiant letter to the congressional committee charging that it had exceeded its powers. Then he tried to board a plane to visit his mother, across the River Plate in Uruguay. Police told him his papers were not in order, held him till the plane had left and then let him go. Then Alberto Gainza Paz disappeared...
...crimes against the state," threw the congressional committee into a boiling rage. For three days, every spare cop was flung into the chase, and government patrol craft nosed into every cove and inlet along the river coast. But their quarry got away. At week's end, Gainza Paz turned up safe at his mother's estate, 150 miles west of Montevideo...
ALBERTO GAINZA PAZ...