Word: strongmanism
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Cheers & Whistles. The strong-arm show was clearly punitive. A week before, at the season's gay opening bullfight, the crowd had cheered for ten minutes when former President Alberto Lleras Camargo, who symbolizes opposition to Strongman Rojas Pinilla, arrived and took a seat. No sooner had the cheering died down than the President's 22-year-old daughter Maria Eugenia and her husband, pro-government Publisher Samuel Moreno, stepped into the presidential box. In the Colombian equivalent for booing, the throng angrily whistled them out of the stadium-an insult that doubtless threw hot-tempered General Rojas...
...Former governor of Maine (1945-49), president of Bucknell University (1949-53). His eldest daughter Josephine in October 1954 married the son of Pakistan's strongman, Governor General Iskander Mirza...
Since last August, when he shut down Colombia's leading newspaper, El Tiempo, Strongman-President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla has been carrying on a clumsy feud with the country's traditionally free-swinging press. Last week Rojas discovered that he had stumbled again. His latest press-muzzling maneuver, an attempt to fine two of the country's largest Liberal dailies (El Espectador and El Correo) into oppositionless silence, had backfired. Rojas found himself faced by a "Freedom of the Press Fund," supported by public subscription, to pay the penalties, should he decide to levy similar fines...
...revolutions this time of year," President Alfredo Stroessner contentedly remarked in the flower of Paraguay's summer; moreover, it is bad form in Latin America to plot just before Christmas. But last week, disregarding both the heat and all considerations of good taste, Strongman Stroessner's enemies tried to throw...
...them; then the officers acted. Cops and Marines burst into a meeting in La Plata, a meat-packing city 35 miles southeast of Buenos Aires, and arrested some 50 persons. Among them were General Heraclio Ferrazzano and Colonel Norberto Ugolini, a pair of cashiered officers, who, loyal to ex-Strongman Juan Perón, fought off insurrectionists at the Rio Santiago naval base during last September's successful anti-Perón revolution. Police followed up by questioning between 400 and 500 other known Peronistas...