Word: vergara
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...rounded up 14 sergeants and corporals, opened a military court to investigate the affair. As the noncoms blabbed, the court arrested a group of army and aviation officers. Then it netted two big fish: elderly (71) ex-President Carlos Ibañez del Campo and Colonel Ramón Vergara Montero, retired air force chief...
Wily old General Ibañez, a 1927-vintage dictator, claimed that he had tried to dissuade the plotters, but nobody believed him. Vergara would not talk. A sergeant uncovered one factor with the naive testimony: "I thought the movement was only aimed to raise...
Last week, with the 29-day court investigation completed, most details of the conspiracy were out in the open. Ibañez had been the front man, Vergara the boss. The plotters had relied on three discontented groups: underpaid noncoms, impatient junior officers and out-of-power conservative politicos. The aim was to set up a military dictatorship...
After Socialist Minister of Trade Oscar Schnake Vergara returned from a six-month visit to Washington last December, Chile's Socialist Party became noticeably cool toward its Communist colleagues in the Popular Front. Minister Schnake had wangled a $17,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan for Chile, and in return was supposed to see that the U. S. got full cooperation in its plans for hemisphere defense. Last January Socialist Leader Marmaduke Grove announced that if the U. S. entered the war, Chile would follow...
...Alfonso Fors, head of the.judicial police, announced that a plot had been discovered to assassinate General Gerardo Machado y Morales, President of the Cuban Republic since 1925, and to plunge the country in civil warfare with the idea of bringing about U. S. intervention. A certain Dr. Alejandro Vergara Leonard was named head of the conspiracy, and he and nine followers were arrested and flung into the grey, 18th century Castillo del Principe...