Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Antonio Segni, who is expected to name a Premier-designate this week. If Fanfani is passed over, No. 1 candidate for the office will be the Christian Democrats' tall, unassuming Aldo Moro, 46, who became interim party leader in 1959 and has since emerged as party strongman...
...Minister of Guidance and Culture. There was some possibility that the new Premier might be acceptable to both sides: to the Baathists because Jundi was once a party member and had stood by the government; to the Nasserites because he has been a longtime admirer of Egypt's strongman and believes in unity at all costs. At week's end, the regime in neighboring Iraq was also giving ground to the Nasserites. The entire Baath-dominated Cabinet resigned, but lean, balding Premier Hassan Bakr was commissioned to form a new government, presumably one with greater pro-Nasser representation...
...Spain's Francisco Franco is the only other dictator with legal life tenure as chief of state. Ghana's strongman President, Kwame Nkrumah, was voted permanently into office in September, but His High Dedication modestly vetoed the gesture, preferring to rely on elections-a safe enough gesture since the country is officially a one-party state...
Algeria's Premier Ahmed ben Bella cabled that this was "the most wonderful day of my life!" and Yemen's strongman. Abdullah Sallal. hailed the "outstanding historic event." Cheering crowds milled through Aden and Kuwait and Baghdad...
Guatemala City's workers and shopkeepers applauded politely, and the hundreds of straw-hat peasants trucked into the capital stood passively. The country's new military strongman was addressing them. On a balcony of the avocado green national palace, Army Colonel Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 54, explained what was in store for the country following his overthrow of President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes. He began by proclaiming Decree Law No. 1: subject-labor reform. Peralta promised equal pay for both Indians and whites, an eight-hour day and a 48-hour week, paid vacations, maternity leave, the right of farm...