Word: urrutia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 5--Provisional President Manuel Urrutia arrived in Havana late today, raising the prospect that martial law in Havana province and a prospective curfew for the capital would be lifted quickly...
...denies all presidential (or dictatorial) ambitions: "I can do more for my country giving an example of disinterestedness." But he insists that "our movement has the right to appoint the Provisional President." For that job, his present choice is a respectable but unknown lower-court judge named Manuel Urrutia (now exiled in the U.S.), largely because Urrutia once spoke up for the right of rebels to oppose dictatorships...
...leading candidates needed only some of Coihueco's votes (added to votes already won elsewhere in the electoral district) to top the required minimum "quotient." Government Candidate Serafin Soto needed only 150 of the voters, who numbered 1,194, including neighboring farmers. Opposition Candidate Juan Luis Urrutia needed...
That night votes were counted. Once the lights mysteriously went out; at another moment, an official collapsed in an epileptic seizure, almost starting a panic. In the end, the government's Soto won, making his quotient, while Urrutia fell short by 22. That should have settled the majority, but it did not. Reason: just before election day, another pro-government Deputy had been killed in an airline crash. The score is still 73 to 73. and the buy-election routine will probably have to be repeated in Copiapo...