Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fraud," cried Belaúnde, and demanded a "tribunal of honor" to re count the votes. "In case the government does not comply," Belaúnde threatened, "we will be compelled to overthrow it." Watching from the wings, Peru's army regarded Belaúnde with suspicion. But it hated APRA with an unyielding fury. The generals sent tanks crashing through the wrought-iron gates of Lima's presidential palace, deposed outgoing President Manuel Prado, nullified the election, and set up their own four-man junta to rule Peru...
Perhaps not. Inönü may well be nearing the end of his political career. But the suspicion grew last week that Inönü had deliberately allowed himself to be forced out. With elections coming up later this year, Octogenarian Inönü has been heavily criticized for being too soft on Cyprus, too slow in pushing national economic development. By handing his problems over to others for a few months, the old fox could hope that the new government would make a mess of things, allowing him to pick up the pieces...
...Chinese, who comprise 98% of Hong Kong's population, have traditionally distrusted banks, preferring to keep their savings in the form of jewels in a safe or gold under a mattress or in their teeth. Such suspicion has waned considerably, however, as Hong Kong has become mainland Asia's leading trade and banking center, with a long-stable currency that is fully backed by Britain. Last year the colony's 80 banks hit a record $1 billion in deposits...
...poses a paradox worth pondering by the advocates of European unity. A good European, argues Lukacs, must first be a good nationalist; before he can become meaningfully committed to an integrated Europe, he must be emotionally committed to a single European nation. Lukacs shares De Gaulle's suspicion of a federated Europe, advocating instead the Gaullist vision of a loosely linked Europe des patries. Far from urging a return to truculent nationalisms, Lukacs hopefully champions the more temperate patriotism of the Briton, the slowly developed reverence for history and tradition on which any greater society must be constructed...
Died. Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 83, friend and biographer of two U.S. literary pillars (Willa Gather: A Memoir; Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence), among whose reminiscences were Gather's abject chagrin at Henry James's polite refusal to read her novels and Frost's nagging suspicion that his wife was his intellectual superior; in Manhattan...