Word: soledad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President was surprised. He had only wanted to reward a blood relative, as he had done in naming his brother Alvaro as head of the government land office, his niece Soledad Ydígoras as chief of procurement for school supplies, and Julia's son Boris as assistant secretary to the President. But Ydígoras switched sides abruptly and grabbed Julia's resignation, announcing that he was heeding "opinions widely held by educational groups." Darkly, Julia declared that "Communists and Mexicans" were against her, announced that "I am no longer to be called Ydígoras...
Parson Hauff didn't like the sound of this, or so he said, and he asked the voices for further guidance. Take canned food, said the voices, and go. Where? Jerry was told that the best place for fleeing was remote, snake-infested Soledad Canyon, 65 miles from Los Angeles, on the edge of the Southern California desert. He bought 520 acres of it, and founded Eden City-the first, he said, of his "cities of refuge." Two dozen of his elderly parishioners sold their property, handed Jerry the money and headed for safety...