Word: toh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many, the hard work and meager diet of bread and beans have proved merciless. After several months on Dawson Island, Allende's Foreign Minister, Clodomiro Almeyda, was brought to Santiago wearing tattered clothing and in precarious health. In February, former Minister of Interior and Defense José Tohá González committed suicide, according to the government. When brought from Dawson, the 6-ft. 4-in. Tohá weighed only...
Proudly trying out his new 60-ft. yacht Toh-Be-Kin at the entrance to the harbor at Newport Beach, Calif., Senator Barry Goldwater, 64, heard a woman's screams from the water. Maneuvering his boat toward a couple who had been thrown from their small speedboat, the Senator tried to reach them by tossing them a rope. Failing, he dived into the water fully clothed and rescued Mr. and Mrs. Glen Machlitt of North Hollywood. Goldwater pulled the Machlitts into his boat, in shock but still conscious, and turned them over to the harbor police, departing without waiting...
Currently, the opposition parties, which control a substantial majority in Chile's Chamber of Deputies, are trying to embarrass Allende by impeaching his most trusted Cabinet member, Socialist Interior Minister José Tohá. The move was transparently political, since even opposition members concede that Tohá is an effective and capable minister. He was formally accused by Christian Democratic Deputies and Nationalists, however, of having failed to control armed guerrilla groups of both the right and the left -particularly those leftists who had helped peasants make unauthorized land seizures-and a host of other, petty "crimes...
...weeks ago, the Chamber of Deputies approved the impeachment proceedings, thereby requiring the Senate-in which the opposition has a majority of one-to sit in judgment on Tohá. Under the Chilean constitution, a Cabinet officer faced with impeachment proceedings is automatically suspended from his post. Furious, Allende challenged the Chamber by making Tohá the acting Defense Minister and giving his old portfolio to Defense Minister Alejandro Ríos Valdivia, a moderate leftist. The opposition immediately complained that Allende was illegally circumventing the constitution...