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Article: ARMY GENERAL TAKES POWER IN PARAGUAY.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- February 4, 1989
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Byline: Combined wire services
Gen. Andres Rodriguez was sworn in as president Friday after ousting President Alfredo Stroessner in a coup that reportedly left scores dead. Rodriguez ordered the dictator out of the country he had ruled for 34 years.
Rodriguez, who had been Stroessner's second-in-command in the army, took the oath of office and then swore in a nine-member Cabinet comprising seven civilians, an active general and a retired general.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Charles Redman maid the United States hoped that the military coup was a step toward democracy, but American officials expressed grave concern about reports ...