Word: indalecio
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...Republic National Bank of Miami, the loan seemed sound: an $800,000 mortgage on a Coral Gables, Fla., home worth $1.2 million. But the U.S. ! Attorney seized the house in March because it was owned by Thule Holding Corp., a Panamanian company controlled by Indalecio Iglesias, a convicted drug trafficker...
...where Third World countries hold a strong majority. The Soviets let Afghan Foreign Minister Shah Mohammed Dost carry their case at the debate's opening. He protested that the U.N. was reviving the "dark days of the cold war." Other delegates remained unpersuaded. Charged Colombia's delegate Indalecio Lievano: The Soviets' arrogant abuse of power represents "a return to the law of the jungle in the era of nuclear weapons...
...premier (May, 1937) ten months after the Spanish Civil War broke out, for two years led the crumbling republic's fight against Franco's Axis-backed forces; of a heart attack; in Paris. Left-winger Negrin got aid from Russia, later was charged by onetime Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto with having smuggled $566 million in Loyalist bullion to Russia while finance minister...
Appointment in Odessa. The move was so secret that not even Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto was informed of this destination. Prieto found out about it only because he happened to be in Cartagena on business. The maneuver had been worked out by Juan Negrin, the pro-Communist Foreign Minister of the Largo Caballero government, in cahoots with Marcel Rosenberg, the Soviet ambassador, and Arthur Stakheevsky, Soviet economic adviser in Madrid (both of whom were later purged by Stalin...
...Russian Help. This month, in one of those outbursts of recriminations that occur in Mexico City's colony of Spanish ex-Loyalists, Indalecio Prieto stirred up the long-buried story of the gold hoard, accused his fellow exile, Juan Negrín, of complicity. This time, Franco's Spain picked up Prieto's accusations. In formal notes to the U.S., Britain and France, Franco's Foreign Minister protested against Russian use of the Spanish gold in European trade. Since the Russians have undoubtedly melted down the coins and removed the Spanish mint marks from the bullion...