Word: montenegro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guatemala, after three years of military government, Strongman Enrique Peralta permitted more than 450,000 Guatemalans to go to the polls and in a free and open election reject two military candidates in favor of a civilian: Julio César Méndez Montenegro, 50, leader of the moderate Revolutionary Party. The quiet, colorless dean of the University of Guatemala's law school, Méndez Montenegro promised to promote new industry, head off inflation and, most important of all, create a government completely free of military influence. He rolled up more votes in Guatemala City than...
...home for the weekend after all, Scott caught the next jet to Lima, Peru, which promised the best connection into Bolivia's capital of La Paz. While he was in the air, the Bolivian situation was indeed coming apart, and TIME'S stringer there, Walter Montenegro, who had gone back to his native country in the past year after twelve years on the staff of LIFE EN ESPANOL in New York, was dodging rifle fire to keep New York informed of the coup in progress...
After he got the exiled President's side of the story, Scott's next aim was to get to La Paz to join forces with Montenegro. Following a considerable delay because all flights had been canceled, Scott finally touched down at the 13,358-ft.-high airport in La Paz, his 18th landing there in the last 18 months. Before long he was talking with the new head of the government, General Rene Barrientos, who had once jokingly told Scott: "If you come here much more often, we're going to nationalize you." Scott found Barrientos uncertain...
...York, using the cabled reports from Scott and Montenegro, Hemisphere Editor George Daniels and Writers Philip Osborne and David B. Tinnin sandwiched the Bolivia story in between analyses of recent coups in Latin America and the changing role of the military. While the biggest news of the week was made in Moscow, where our cover story in THE WORLD originated, Gavin Scott and the boys in THE HEMISPHERE section felt that it had been quite a week on the Andes beat...
Mama's Children. The two leaders did just about everything else, as they ranged the country from quake-shattered Skoplje to wild Montenegro, where after a picnic the mountainfolk broke into the kolo, a fiery, foot-stamping circle dance. Khrushchev and his stolid wife Nina, and Tito and his statuesque spouse Jovanka, broke into the ring, swirling around with the pretty girls and peasants...