Word: montenegro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MARIO MENDEZ MONTENEGRO, 47, leader of the liberal Partido Re-voludonario (P.R.) that was outlawed in last October's M.D.N.-sponsored quickie election as too Communist, despite the fact that he once went into exile after plotting against Arbenz. Reinstated by the regime of current Provisional President Guillermo Flores Avendano, Mendez Montenegro calls Communists "my worst enemies...
...their offers to Yugoslavia, have pointedly frozen credits already agreed upon when displeased by Tito's diplomatic posture. (One consequence of this is that, despite the fact that the Russians first agreed to supply credits for it in August 1956, construction of a $175 million aluminum plant in Montenegro has now been postponed to 1960 at the earliest.) The Yugoslavs are also distressed by the poor quality of East German equipment purchased with Soviet credits, have left hundreds of East German cars and other machines sitting forlornly idle in a huge vacant lot in the center of Belgrade...
...Yugoslavia, Metropolitan Arsenije Bradvarevic, 71, of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, was sentenced to 11½; years of solitary confinement in prison. The indictment was not published, but the metropolitan's offenses were clear. He had boldly led the fight against a Communist-run front organization of fellow-traveling priests, and had refused to resign his post when the government ordered...
...plot, whether real or fancied, was convenient, and it roused the regime's supporters to demands for action. The Communist chief of the peasants' union called on his followers to be ready to join a rural militia to shoot antiCommunists. And Communist Congressman César Montenegro Paniagua proclaimed that Guatemala would never need concentration camps. If the opposition should rise, he explained, "we will cut off the heads of all anti-Communists...
...have his art valued above material luxury was sweet praise for Radulovic, who knows the appeal of luxuries from having been so long without them. As a boy in Montenegro, Savo tended sheep. After his family emigrated to the U.S., he had to take a job at the age of 16 in an Illinois coal mine. Following a stint as a tool grinder in a Detroit auto plant, he attended night classes at Washington University's School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, got a fellowship to Harvard. He had his first Manhattan show in 1940, and the critics...