Word: oligarchs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confidence: he bucked Peru's Roman Catholicism by pushing through an annulment of his 40-year marriage to a long-estranged first wife, then married Clorinda Málaga, 53, his great and good friend for 25 years. The danger of a military coup remains; the pro-oligarch army is uncomfortable in the new atmosphere, but otherwise Prado's course is paying off. He has repressed the Communists and helped nurture a middle class of 350,000 families that is moving into the middle ground between oligarchs and masses...
MANUEL PRADO, 67, candidate of his own personalist party and a former (1939-45) President, is the archetype of the Peruvian oligarch, wealthy from banking, real estate and industry. Sitting amidst the priceless antiques in his mansion, he says: "I am the man of the people...