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...flew back three weeks ago to supervise the election. Scarcely a ballot box was left unstuffed, or an oppositionist unintimidated in Lozano's electoral effort. For what it was worth, he won. But when his cops topped off the fraud by shooting into a crowd of demonstrators on Election Day, Lozano's number was up. With the gentle air of friends who know what is best, the general, the colonel and the major eased him out. Said the junta: "We intend to govern democratically." It was the 13 5th revolution in Honduras' history-and the first military...
...term of office as Korea's first and only President drew to an end last month, Rhee's re-election by the oppositionist Assembly was plainly in doubt. Rhee demanded a constitutional amendment giving the people the right to choose their President. Korea's assemblymen refused to pass the amendment. Rhee countered by throwing many of his opponents in jail, sending his police to terrorize others, and threatening to dissolve the Assembly altogether (TIME, June...
...Iranian George Washington was probably born in 1879 (he fibs about his age). His mother was a princess of the Kajar dynasty then ruling Persia; his father was for 30 years Finance Minister of the country. Mohammed Mossadegh entered politics in 1906. An obstinate oppositionist, he was usually out of favor and several times exiled. In 1919, horrified by a colonial-style treaty between Britain and Persia, he hardened his policy into a simple Persia-for-the-Persians slogan. While the rest of the world went through Versailles, Manchuria, the Reichstag fire, Spain, Ethiopia and a World War, Mossadegh kept...
...chased each other through the halls. As soon as soldiers butted them apart, the Deputies in the chamber below began hooting and slamming desks, while outside a gang of Mossadegh mobsters beat on the Majlis gates and screamed, "Death to Mossadegh's opponents." When order was restored, Oppositionist Imami yelled at Mossadegh: "Go on outside and talk to your stabbers." "I will go . . ." said Mossadegh, near tears. "... to hell!" said Imami...
...coat. He had time only to say: "Shirtless companions" when the crowd shouted: "The coat, the coat!" Perón laughed, took it off and launched into a speech in his old rabble-rousing manner. He praised his regime, gently chided the workers for having stoned the building of oppositionist La Prensa on their way to the Plaza. Then, just before Government functionaries passed around cookies and candies as gifts from Evita, Perón declared the following day a holiday...