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...string of titles - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of Turkey, Caliph of Islam, Prince of the Faithful, Master of the World and Custodian of the Cities of Mecca and Medina - but he was better known during his reign (1876-1909) as Abdul the Damned. He squatted within a triple-walled palace at Constantinople, amassed women (four wives, 233 concubines) and wealth ($112,000,000 in jewels, millions more in oilfields and other jiftlik, or crown lands). In 1920, after he and his sick empire had died, his numerous heirs began one of the most fantastic inheritance suits of all time...
Publisher Raul Damonte Taborda fled to Uruguay. Then his mother-in-law and the paper's chief owner, Señora Salvadora Medina Onrubia de Botana, gave up the battle, let pro-Perón federal officials take over. Last week Señora Botana and the federals celebrated the surrender-by toasting...
...President Isaias Medina's files, the junta turned up secret lists enumerating $7,000,000 in bribes to deputies, high army officers, journalists. Also uncovered: an excellent photograph of careless President Medina in the company of naked prostitutes. The new Government said that the picture was too obscene for publication...
...clock one afternoon a group of young Army officers revolted in Caracas' San Carlos barracks. By nine o'clock they had forced their way into the strategic Escuela Militar (military school) and Miraflores Palace, the Presidential residence. They had also captured President Isaías Medina Angarita...
Betancourt and Gallegos had been exiles in the days of tyrannical dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. They had returned to Venezuela to help prod President Eleázar López Contreras along the path of measured democracy. For a time they had gotten along with his successor, Medina. But they had broken with Medina when he failed 1) to tackle the nation's economic problems squarely, 2) to change the constitution so that the President could be elected by direct suffrage...