Word: strongmanism
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Haya emerged from eleven years of hiding to become Peru's unofficial strongman. He first tightened socialistic controls on prices and currency exchange, a move every bit as alarming as the conservatives had feared. They boycotted Congress, paralyzing it. Then came violence: the assassination of the editor of La Prensa, the Apra-hating newspaper owned by conservative Cotton Exporter Pedro Beltrán. Apristas were blamed; President Bustamante called for a soldier to take charge of public order. His choice: gimlet-eyed Colonel Manuel Odria, then chief of staff...
...wants real leadership badly, and sometimes talks as though he would settle for a "strongman." When former Premier Mendès-France outlined a program to benefit youth last fall, he found a cautious but widespread response. Unfortunately, it didn't last. After Mendès' fall, France's younger generation slid back into collective indifference. Like his elders, the French youngster has come to believe in every-man-for-himself...
...show that he was not feuding with all churches, Peron last week donned a full-dress uniform to receive the Greek Orthodox Order of the Holy Sepulchre, bestowed upon him in the name of the Patriarch of Jerusalem. It is easy for Strongman Peron to be friendly to other churches: in 93% Catholic Argentina, only one church poses any threat to his total control of the nation, or any obstacle to his aim of Peronizing the minds of Argentine schoolchildren...
...trim Brazilian cruiser steamed into Lisbon harbor. Aboard was Brazil's Joao Cafe Filho, President of a onetime Portuguese colony that became a nation 100 times as big and seven times as populous as the motherland. Met at dockside by figurehead President Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes and Strongman Oliveira Salazar, Café Filho began his state visit by riding through downtown Lisbon in an open car, along flag-decorated streets jammed with smiling, cheering people. Torrents of confetti in the Brazilian national colors cascaded downward, green from one side of the street, yellow from the other. The pace...
...When Strongman Juan Perón decided to lift Argentina's 1936 ban on legalized prostitution as part of his campaign against the Roman Catholic Church (TIME, Jan. 10), his decree authorized provincial and local governments to license brothels in "suitable places." Last week the Buenos Aires municipal council, pioneering in this unplowed field, made public its plans for building a $6,516,000 "suitable place" near the geographical center of the nation's capital. The city's only authorized red-light district will consist of two austere rows of classic structures, 32 in all, with columns...