Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just twelve hours one day last week, Fidel Castro boldly and brutally crushed his puppet President, Manuel Urrutia. With an expert and cynical maneuver, Strongman Castro set a mob on the Presidential Palace, then went on television to denounce Urrutia as a "traitor." Not since the time in the 1930s when Dictator Fulgencio Batista went through five puppets in two years had a President of Cuba been treated with such contempt...
...Sukarno himself is less a strongman than a symbol. He must rule in partnership, and only two organizations-the army and the Communist Party-have the efficiency and administrative knack to help him govern. In naming his ten-man "inner" Cabinet last week, Sukarno clearly chose the army. Not a single post went to a Communist or a fellow traveler. Able ex-Premier Djuanda was named First Minister and Finance Minister. The army got two plums: the important Ministry of Security and Defense went to Army Commander Lieut. General A. Haris Nasution and the Production Ministry to Colonel Suprajogi...
Spain & Portugal. Both nations are now in the restless stage before an aging strongman surrenders authority (after 27 years for Salazar, 22 for Franco). But in each, the anxiety to avoid violence will probably prevent a revolution-or the injection of much democracy...
...warned Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. A pair of Cuba-based rebel invasion forces-one of 63 men arriving by C46 at the mountain-ringed, mid-island town of Constanza, and another of 150 aboard two Chris-Craft launches that landed near Puerto Plata on the north coast-put the strongman's boast to the test of arms. Last week, both by government and rebel account, Trujillo proved that he meant what he said...
...first was to promise elections this year of village panchayats (councils) to take over local police, judicial and administrative duties. Once the panchayats are functioning, work will begin on a new constitution. By starting at the bottom, Sandhurst-trained Strongman Khan hopes to build democracy slowly, from the bottom up, so as to avoid reinstating the corrupt...