Word: peronization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time or another all three of them were in the same line of work; outsiders might easily picture ex-Dictator Juan Peron, 63, and ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista, 58, gathered around Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's warm swimming pool in the Dominican Republic, reminiscing about the good old days. Instead, there was trouble in Trujillo's paradise. Peron was too scornful to speak to Batista; Batista was too scared to talk to Peron; aging (67) Dictator Trujillo obviously wished that both of them would go away. Reason: Cuba's bearded rebel leader, Fidel Castro, who toppled Batista...
Breaking the Chains. During the last week in December, seven top Argentine Peronistas traveled to a strategy rendezvous with exiled Strongman Juan Peron in the Dominican Republic, worked out plans for a strike-and-riot attack against Frondizi. Returning to Buenos Aires, they put it into effect three days before Frondizi flew north. The trigger was a Frondizi bill, passed by Congress, giving the government permission to sell or lease a featherbedded, government-owned meatpacking plant. Workers at the plant listened to a harangue by a top Peronista, then chained the gate and barricaded themselves in. Frondizi did not hesitate...
Kissinger deposes Bundy, who flees to the Dominican Republic, where he begins secret negotiations with Juan Peron. President Pusey accepts the offer of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and becomes Bishop Coadjutor. William Yandell Elliott seizes power in the interregnum claiming the support of the Summer School...
John M. Bullitt, from a stategic artillery position atop Quincy House, seizes control of Harvard. Elliott flees to Concord. Bundy and Peron move into Argentina, but the country is destroyed by a faulty U.S. missile broadcasting the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Bernard Goldfine comes out of retirement to become Dean of Harvard. From her cell his secretary, a Miss Paperman, reports that he is taking advisement under a typing exam...
...have an understandable tendency towards self-perpetuation, and are, in general, reluctant to give up power. Once in, it is almost impossible to dislodge them; when they do leave finally, the situation is not much better than when they took over. There is no lack of instances: Hitler, Mussolini, Peron, Nasser, and even Kemal Ataturk. It is indeed ironical that even Ataturk was not able to instill a democratic spirit amongst the Turks, nor prepare Turkey for democracy, with constitutional rights and safeguards, as daily events there today illustrate...