Word: pepe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pepe Le Moko...
...most intriguing Janus program is the pair of French gangster films Casque D'Or (1952) and Pepe Le Moko (1936). Pepe unabashedly imitates American films like Scarface, but period piece Casque set in the Belleville district of Paris in 1898, has golden-haired Simone Signoret as well as a guillotine to set it apart...
...killing continued. José ("Comandante Pepe") Gregorio Liendo Vera, a popular revolutionary who organized peasants in the south of Chile to seize farms, was executed by a military firing squad. Communist Party Leader Luis Corvalán Lepe is on trial on a charge of high treason, which carries the death penalty. All told, 476 people have died-some say as many as 5,000-including one American...
...American financier paid more than $2,000,000 for 30% of the holding company. With the money Don Pepe bought new machinery that has increased the firm's output of coffee bags from 2,000,000 annually to 7,000,000. Since Vesco moved to Costa Rica, it turned out, Figueres' New York bank account has grown by $436,000-much of it transferred by a bank with which Vesco has had extensive dealings...
...news of Vesco's troubles-and of Don Pepe's relationship with the financier-spread through San José, the President went on the defensive. Don Pepe insisted that his relationship with Vesco had been strictly business. As long as the American breaks no Costa Rican law, Figueres sees no reason not to deal with him. He also explained, on a national-television broadcast, that the money deposited in his New York bank account was for such projects as support for the Costa Rican National Symphony Orchestra and a bank that helps artisans and small industries...