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Into Rio's Palacio Tiradentes one afternoon this week strode well-groomed Professor Pereira Lira, President Eurico Gaspar Dutra's personal counselor. He carried a heavy, leather-bound pile of papers, which he placed on the speaker's desk in the Chamber of Deputies. To the opening session of the Brazilian Congress the president had sent a 130,000-word message on the state of the nation...
Then Somoza changed his mind. At the head of 25 men he appeared at the Palacio de Comunicaciones, seized the telephone and telegraph wires. With a radio microphone in one hand to instruct his single tank crew and a telephone in the other to demand surrender, Somoza sent out his troops. By 3 o'clock in the morning he had Congress in session; Congress declared argüello "mentally incompetent." Then Somoza went up the hill, awoke the President, told him he was through. Somoza had won his cheapest victory...
...Cuban Confederation of Labor is Peña. Once a tobacco worker and now a connoisseur of fine cigars, he dominates meetings of his 400,000-member Confederation with his booming, deliberate voice, his attacks on U.S. imperialismo, his praise of Russia. His chief monument is the block-long Palacio de Los Trabajadores (Labor Palace), for which President Ramón Grau San Martin allotted $772,000 to butter up the Communists after they had given him a political hotfoot...
...autumn sunlight Asuncion hardly looked like the capital of a nation caught in the throes of civil war. Indian women and heavily laden burros carried produce to market. Men loafed in the cafes, sipping small cups of coffee and yerba mate. The seedy Palacio Lopez, where Dictator Higinio Morinigo rules with his back to the nearby muddy Paraguay River, had the easy, unguarded air of an Illinois county courthouse...
...smaller projects have been completed. The "Lázaro Cárdenas," fourth largest earthen dam in the world, held back the waters of the Nazas River ia September 1944, during the worst flood in 53 years, protected the cities of Torreón, Lerdo and Gómes Palacio in the plains of northern Mexico. This more than compensated for the $16 million the dam has cost to date. On the 280,000 acres it irrigates live 35,000 peasant families...