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...average peasant wage of $53 annually. Yet the conservatives still call APRA Communist, the Communists call it reactionary, and politicians of all shades spend more time attacking it than speaking for themselves. Nor does APRA hear many kind words from outgoing President Prado and his influential ex-Prime Minister, Pedro Beltran, both of whom enjoyed APRA's support in government. Both have declined to give APRA an endorsement...
...full extent of the nation's economic ruin was never fully understood by the descamisados Perón left behind; all they knew was that their heroic Caudillo had been driven out. It was left to the interim military government of General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu to assess the damage-and to Arturo Frondizi, elected in 1958, to attempt some permanent repairs...
...soccer stadiums and the race tracks. All the while the military argued to exhaustion, divided over two propositions, one side arguing: "Let's get Frondizi out first, then talk," the other, "Frondizi had better stay, but he will have to take orders." Above the battle ex-President Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, a respected old soldier, requested eight to ten days to mediate the differences be tween Frondizi and the military. Frondizi himself labored to assemble an uncontroversial Cabinet of technicians agreeable to the military. It was by no means certain that this would be enough to save his skin...
Tampa cigarmen are predicting that when their own six-month to one-year stockpile of Havana leaf runs out, their $50 million-per-year business will go up in smoke. "I don't know what these people are going to do." said Pedro López, a cigar union official. Looking around a large, pungent room full of hand cigar makers, he added: "Their average age is between 45 and 60; they're not entitled to a pension, and they're too old to find jobs. I think that if they're going to let tobacco...
...hours last week, the Dominican Republic's fragile new democracy disappeared beneath a military dictatorship that promised to be a throwback to the days of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In a bold coup, Armed Forces Secretary Pedro Ramon Rodriguez Echavarria, a 37-year-old Trujillo leftover, dismissed the civilian Council of State and proclaimed his own tame junta. In Miami, two exiled Trujillos, brothers of the assassinated dictator, started cashing their cached U.S. dollars into pesos for the trip home. But having once tasted freedom after 31 years of tyranny, the 3,000,000 Dominicans were...