Word: strongman
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...Gaza strip last week on a Moslem holiday tour of army bases and refugee camps, Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser heard a radio bulletin: the U.S. had approved a French shipment to Israel of twelve Mystère jet fighters out of its NATO stocks. Egypt's soldier-strongman blew up: the French jets, added to a dozen Mystères and 24 Ouragan jets already shipped, would undo much of the advantage Egypt had gained by buying Soviet-bloc arms...
After announcing that he would not seek a third term as President, South Korea's aging Strongman Syngman Rhee was at last persuaded to run "only by the clamor of the Korean people." He was confident of his popularity and of the efficiency of his machine. Chipper and jaunty at 81, he spent the final days of the campaign attending the movies and pointing out dirty spots on the new floors of his pet project, Seoul's plush $5,000,000 Bando Hotel...
...Basque bachelor of 40, fought Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and paid the price of defeat in exile, first to France, then, in 1939, to the Dominican Republic. There he took legal advisory and teaching jobs with the government of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. As he watched the strongman's methods, his fear and anger grew. By 1946 he was deep in anti-Trujillo underground activity and New York friends got him a visa to come to the U.S. By then a fascination with Trujillo's iron personality and Trujillo's absolute rule had become...
...book-cluttered apartment on lower Fifth Avenue, Galindez patiently assembled all the known facts about Generalissimo Trujillo. Most of the research went toward a critical, 750-page dissertation on Trujillo submitted for a Ph.D. degree at Columbia. Galindez also worked on a scathing novel about the strongman, and wrote many an attack on Trujillo in magazine articles and pamphlets published in the U.S. and Mexico...
Died. Lieut. General Eduardo Lonardi, 59, who overthrew the ten-year rule of Argentina's Strongman Juan Peron in last year's five-day revolution, served as provisional President for 50 days, until ousted by a palace coup (TIME, Nov. 21) for his moderate attitude toward defeated Peronistas; after long illness; in Buenos Aires' Central Military Hospital. Soft-spoken General Lonardi spent a year (1947-48) in Washington as Argentina's representative on the Inter-American Defense Board, was forced out of the army in 1951 for allegedly plotting against Peron. Jailed for eight months...