Word: videla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman at the door would not take no for an answer. She must see Rosita González de Claro, younger daughter of Chile's President Gabriel González Videla. Finally, the servants let her in. "Señora Rosita," gasped Carmen Rosa Soto de Varas, wife of an Infantry School noncom, "I couldn't get an interview with your father ... Go right away and tell him the military want to overthrow him. I know it because my husband is one of them. He told me the whole thing...
Though Chile's Communist Party had been outlawed since September, President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla was still worried about the mischief Communists might do in his country. Last week, to "prevent possible Communist crimes," he asked Congress to extend for another six months his emergency power to imprison individuals without trial. By a well-timed coincidence, Gonzalez' police has just arrested 21 Communist labor leaders in Concepcion, and seized documents purportedly proving that the 21 were cooking up ways to sabotage a steel mill, copper, coal and nitrate mines...
...years, Chilean women had seen bills for women's suffrage introduced in Congress, had watched them languish and die. This time they meant business. Led by sleekly coiffured Rosa ("Mitty") Marckmann de González Videla, 41, wife of the President, they determinedly celebrated Women's Suffrage Week, felt sure that a new bill before the Chamber of Deputies would both live and become...
BEFORE HE LEFT FOR BOLIVIA, Dutra sent regrets to the invitation of President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla (just back from a junket through Chile's northern provinces) to visit Chile. It was impossible because Brazil is playing host this week to Uruguay's President Luis Batlle Berres...
...Chile, President Gabriel González Videla, who came to power a year ago with Commie votes, last week asked his Congress to outlaw the party. He had already sent 600 leading Communists to the Chilean backlands, now had police out rounding up small...