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...least reported slaughters in the years since World War II was a senseless, near-civil war between Colombia's dominant Liberal and Conservative parties, which killed more than 300,000 people. Four years ago Liberal Statesman-Politician Alberto Lleras Camargo was elected President under terms of a truce whereby the two factions agreed to alternate the presidency. Though the feud still simmers in the backlands, the truce has done something to unite a divided nation and the coffee-growing country of 14 million is making economic strides...
...going to throw him out with bullets." Poggi barricaded himself in the War Secretariat building, posting machine gunners at the windows and emplacing bazooka teams in the flower beds outside. Rauch called up his tanks, and the two sides rumbled ominously. After 24 tense hours, an uneasy truce was made. Both generals resigned their posts; then the Argentine navy sided with Poggi's hard-line faction to swing the balance of power. There could be little question who had won: Poggi, the hardliner...
...reason is not hard to find. Though President Rafael Donnelly's seven-man Council of State has been installed to guide the country toward democracy, it operates under a shaky truce with the still powerful military that remains from Trujillo's time. In plain language the council is afraid to anger the trigger-happy officers by searching out the killers in their ranks. Says an official of the council: "Lots of military men are implicated. You know where we would end up if we pressed too hard...
...take over the whole of Vietnam, North and South. After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, there was little doubt the Viet Minh had complete and unconditional victory within its grasp. The French would have to accept whatever terms the Viet Minh decided to offer. But at the Geneva truce negotiations the Viet Minh delegation made concessions to France and the West that were surprisingly great, considering their advantageous military position. Although the Viet Minh had originally demanded the 11th parallel as provisional dividing line between the zone of French occupation and that of Viet Minh control, its forces retreated...
...common crimes, then returned their control of Argentina's powerful labor unions. The reaction of the bitterly anti-Per&243;n military men was instantaneous. What followed became the classic pattern of the Frondizi administration: a military ultimatum, followed by a Frondizi maneuver, a brief truce, and then more military complaints...