Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Dulles: "I would not say there is any general anti-American sentiment among the people of Venezuela." He ascribed the Caracas riot to the fact that "the police force maintained under Pedro Estrada [police chief under Perez Jimenez] had been virtually liquidated, and the subsitute police did not know how to cope with the mob." This was also the verdict of experts on the scene, appalled by the ease with which a crowd of several hundred rioters tied up the police. Dulles' statement was perfectly accurate; some touchy Venezuelans reacted, however, as though he were lamenting the liquidation...
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...
Washington and London officially denied that any of their submarines were missing or overdue. Moscow was silent, though the Soviet embassy in Buenos Aires said it knew of no Russian submarines in the area. Rear Admiral Isaac Rojas, who was Vice President under Provisional President Pedro Aramburu, believes that the submarine was surveying the lonely Patagonian coast, where there are several bays that could be used to shelter big fleets in the event...
Friends in the Cabinet. The new President rode through cheering crowds to the presidential palace, where he received the sash of office from General Pedro Aramburu, the retiring provisional President who brought the nation firmly back to democracy. Seated in the ancient red-and-gold presidential chair, Frondizi then swore in his eight-man Cabinet, most of them moderates and close personal friends...
...ketch, "Golden Rule," was damaged by storms soon after its departure, and was forced to return to San Pedro for repairs. She set out again at the end of March, and reached Hawaii on April 19. On April 28, the United States Government issued an injunction instructing the crew to appear at a hearing on May 1. On that day the four men, defying the Government, the U.S. Navy, and the Atomic Energy Commission, all of which had given orders that no one was to enter the testing area, set sail from Honolulu for Eniwetok. In half an hour they...