Word: riveros
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...first seven days as Peru's President, José Luis Bustamante Rivero* restored press freedom and full civil rights to his countrymen, freed Peru's political prisoners. He had also fired 300 of the old regime's strong-arm men, cancelled gambling licenses and taken a good long look at the expenditures of the national treasury...
Peru was in a state of electoral grace. Its free election last week, itself a startling novelty, might prove the most significant overturn in Peru's violent electoral history. Far in the lead, with much of the vote unofficially tabulated, was Dr. Jose Luis Bustamante Rivero, candidate of the National Democratic Front. Snowed under was General Eloy G. Ureta, favored by the Government...
Died. Dr. Jose Ignacio de Rivero y Alonso ("Pepin"), 49, editor and publisher of Cuba's oldest (1832) and most famous newspaper, the Havana Diario de la Marina; after long illness; in Vibora, Cuba. Somber, handsome Rivero, although a reactionary himself, in 1930 bitterly criticized the bloody-reactionary Machado regime, dodged its conspiracy and sedition charges by visiting the U.S. In 1934 he was machine-gunned by would-be assassins for forming the nationalistic afirmación Nacional party. In 1936 he blasted the Spanish loyalists, in 1941 was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot prize in journalism by Columbia...
...afternoon newsmen hustled to the delegations' press conferences, heard reports on the morning's progress. Ignored were the colorless, day-late official handouts prepared by Conference Press Chief Count Nicolas del Rivero, brother of Falangist Strong Man Jose Ignacio Rivero. Behind a desk in his eighth-floor Nacional Hotel office, Secretary Hull received U. S. correspondents, biting the plastic rim of his spectacles, answering questions until his growing hoarseness forced Press Chief Mike McDermott to call...
...fishes are concerned, it is probable that Rivero will work on those which belong to the Cuban fauna, and Schroeder will handle the remainder, chiefly the deep sea species...