Word: strongmanism
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Fidel Castro's "total war" against Cuban strongman Fulgencio Batista has been, to date, a total failure. The general strike called for last Wednesday did not materialize as planned, and indications are clearer than ever that Castro does not enjoy widespread support among the Cuban people...
...possible mistrust of Castro's intentions and methods. Newsmen reported that outside of Government circles it is difficult to find anyone ready to say a kind word for General Batista. Although his position has been strengthened by Castro's current failure, Batista is in trouble, and everyone--including the strongman--knows...
Cheney's indictment last week was only one difficulty facing the Griffins. Not only was the Constitution on their littered trail, but Marvin Griffin had stirred up a more dangerous foe. Aware that Georgia's strongman, U.S. Senator Herman Talmadge, had hand-picked Lieutenant Governor Ernest Vandiver as the next governor (TIME, Feb. 17), Griffin-who cannot succeed himself-nevertheless picked and began pushing his own nominee. In retaliation the Talmadge-dominated state senate ordered an investigation of the governor's administration. And if there are any political bodies buried around, the Talmadge fans will know where...
Venezuela's ex-Strongman Marcos Pérez Jiménez has already moved his wife and four daughters to four $60-a-day suites in Miami Beach's Sans Souci Hotel, has a visitor's visa that will let him enter the U.S. any time. His No. 2 man, former Security Police Chief Pedro Estrada, is lying low somewhere in the U.S., having entered on an immigrant's visa...
...prance easily into our midst while hundreds of thousands of worthier souls are barred altogether." But U.S. law lets Latin Americans immigrate without a quota. Political asylum seekers are tested for: pauperism, subversion, moral turpitude. Neither Pérez Jiménez nor Estrada is anywhere near broke; the strongman is said to have squirreled away $250 million. Neither has Communist or Fascist ties, nor has either plotted against the succeeding government (the ground for denying Perón a U.S. visa). Neither is technically guilty of moral turpitude, i.e., convicted of a crime. Both reportedly expect to settle...