Word: urrutia
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After the coup, Colonel Torrijos explained that a two-man provisional junta, composed of Colonels José M. Pinilla and Bolivar Urrutia, would govern the country only until a new electoral law could be drawn up and elections held for the presidency and National Assembly. Torrijos promised that Guard officers would not be allowed to run for office. Whoever comes to power in Panama must face the extremely sensitive task of negotiating a new treaty with the U.S. about the status of the 54-year-old canal and the possibility of building a new one. The political rallying...
Adressing his remarks to Dr. Manuel Urrutia, the former president of Cuba, William Worthy said that, "Unless the U.S. makes up its mind to live and let live it will soon face the same kind of crisis that France faced in the streets of Paris and the streets of Algiers...
...Urrutia, who served in 1959 as Cuba's first revolutionary president before he broke with Fidel Castro, had begun with an attack on the Communist government of Cuba. "History has shown that Castro betrayed us all. The interests of Cuba now lie subservient to the ideals of international Communism...
...only hope for a free Cuba." Urrutia continued, "is the unification of all anti-Castro exiles under one banner. We must have a united view of the future...
...Urrutia was upset by the journalist's inference that Cuba enjoyed more liberty than Mississippi. "If things are so good in Cuba why are there 300,000 Cubans living in this country? And I haven't exactly seen Americans Seeking to Castro's island paradise...