Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Luis Somoza, 44, President of Nicaragua from 1957 to 1963, elder of Strongman Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza's two sons, who with his brother "Tachito" continued the more or less benevolent dictatorship established by their father in 1937, espousing a policy of diligent economic progress coupled with blunt anti-Communism in foreign affairs; after a heart attack; in Managua...
...country's tough, anti-Communist military government. Last August, Russian Foreign Trade Minister Nikolai Patolichev visited Rio and signed a four-year $100 million credit agreement, making Brazil the biggest recipient of Russian aid in Latin America after Cuba. In Argentina, Soviet relations are almost as cordial with Strongman Juan Carlos Ongania's military government; total trade between the two has gone from $18 million in 1964 to $110 million last year...
...long last, after months of delays and confusion, Indonesia's Sukarno was removed as his country's chief of state. The People's Consultative Congress, Indonesia's highest legislative body, stripped him of his presidential powers and turned them over to General Suhar to, the strongman who already exercised them in fact...
...Argentina rivals the power of the military: the 2,500,000-member General Labor Confederation. Through its strikes, demonstrations and exorbitant pay demands, the confederation has triggered the overthrow of three of the country's last six Presidents. Last week, for a change, Argentina's polo-playing Strongman Juan Carlos Onganía suddenly made things hot for the confederation. In rapid succession, he temporarily dissolved the country's six largest labor unions, representing more than 625,000 workers, froze the bank accounts of 100 union leaders, and enacted a new law empowering the government to draft...
John Peterson, Winthrop's strongman, clobbered Dunster's Vic Petzy to gain a TKO in the second round of the unlimited- class title bout. Peterson displayed a varied attack, punching equally well with either hand...