Word: montenegro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow, in its newly toughened attitude towards ideological dissension in the satellites, was dropping hints with the subtlety of a trip hammer that it might cancel a promised $175 million Soviet credit for construction of an aluminum plant in Tito's Montenegro on the ground that Tito was also taking money from the U.S. This led Belgrade's party newspaper Borba to suggest that the Soviet Union "believes that it alone has the right to do business with the U.S.," and that it is now Moscow, not Washington, that puts strings on economic...
...political heir of the assassinated Carlos Castillo Armas, Cruz Salazar controlled Congress, which has the legal power to break an election stalemate by choosing between the two front runners. Unofficial election totals put Ydigoras well ahead with 41% of the vote, left Cruz Salazar and Mario Méndez Montenegro of the liberal Revolutionary Party in a tight race for second place...
...Congress, still controlled by Castillo Armas' M.D.N. party, to choose between the two front runners. Unofficial returns gave Rightist General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes 177,198 votes, M.D.N, Candidate Colonel Jose Luis Cruz Salazar, former Ambassador to Washington, 132,087, and the leftist Revolutionary Party candidate, Mario Mendez Montenegro...
...defeat hit not only M.D.N. but the U.S., which has backed Castillo Armas' brand of moderation with some $80 million in aid. Though publicly neutral, the U.S. had obviously hoped that the middle-road ways would stick. Both Ydigoras Fuentes and Méndez Montenegro professed to be friendly to the U.S., but their backers yelped about U.S. "interference" in internal affairs...
...votes, Ydigoras can count heavily on Guatemala City and several middle-sized towns. Cruz Salazar has a slight edge with the well-oiled M.D.N., which controls and can deliver the votes of whole plantations, towns and villages. Mendez Montenegro is strapped for campaign funds, but much of the country's working class is behind him. With three strong candidates splitting the electorate, chances were good that none of them could win more than 50% of the vote, as required by the constitution. In such case, the M.D.N.-dominated Congress must choose between the two front-runners-which could lead...