Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Santiago consulate-general-visited the statues. Over the protests of the Chilean carabinero on duty, he boldly made off with the Apristas' star-shaped wreaths. Discovering the theft shortly, the Apristas marched off to protest, first at the Ministry of National Defense, then to the office of Mayor Rafael Pacheco. Thundered the mayor, who had authorized their ceremonies: "An insult to O'Higgins and San Martin...
...Guard Your Life." If Arana did not know he was in danger, it was not for lack of warning: the radio station of the Dominican Republic's Arevalo-hating Rafael Trujillo, who has an excellent intelligence service, began interrupting programs with a special message. "Hello, hello Guatemala," said the Voz Dominicana. "Calling
Said Chile's Rafael Irarrazaval Correa, heir to the title of Conde de la Conquista and general manager of a Santiago ready-to-wear firm named Vestex: "I'm a citizen of a democratic nation . . . Don't kid me, please...
...with her eldest daughter Maria Aurora ("Baby"), her younger daughter's husband and a handful of Filipino officials, Mrs. Quezon traveled by car from Manila to Baler, where she was to dedicate a memorial to her husband. Riding in a station wagon with her relatives and Major General Rafael Jalandoni, she led the party through the mountains northeast of Manila where the Huks are thickest. All her companions felt that there was no danger involved where Mrs. Quezon was concerned...
...case turned up during a police raid on a Havana den. Among the evidence was a coded letter which indicated that a Cuban government official was mixed up in the big-time drug traffic. Last week after he stepped off the plane from Lima, waiting detectives nabbed Rafael Menacho Vicente, 55, Cuban consul to Peru. In his diplomatic pouch was a package containing two pounds of cocaine, worth around $10,000 in the underworld...