Word: aramburu
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...onetime neofascist student leader, Firmenich, 36, virtually inaugurated the brutal period of terror and counterterror that became known as Argentina's "dirty war." In 1970 he and a small group of colleagues won instant fame by kidnaping and murdering a former Argentine provisional President, Army General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu. The justification: "anti-imperialism." Eventually, Firmenich declared an underground guerrilla war against the incompetent regime of then President María Estela Martinez de Perón, better known as "Isabelita...
...return to power of former Dictator Perón, Argentina suffered the worst bout of terrorism on the continent. Thousands of left-wing Perónist disciples, known as Montoneros, allied with Trotskyite guerrillas to terrorize and murder at will. Among their victims: onetime Argentine President Pedro Aramburu, General Juan Carlos Sánchez, commander of the Argentine army Second Corps, and John Patrick Egan, a U.S. government representative. Some 700 people were killed by guerrillas, most of them members of the security forces. The guerrillas kidnaped scores of businessmen, particularly foreigners, and companies such as Kodak, Exxon, Firestone...
...government. Issuing their "War Communiqué No. 1" at a clandestine press conference, the Montoneros threatened a terrorist campaign of arson, assassination, sabotage and bombing. As a chilling reminder of their past exploits, they also released a detailed report of how they kidnaped former President Pedro Eugenic Aramburu in 1970, stuffed him into a truckload of hay, and transported him to a ranch outside Buenos Aires, where he was summarily tried, sentenced and executed. Although the Montoneros are not the sole purveyors of Argentine violence, they are widely believed to be responsible for most of the recent bombings...
...sympathizers threatened to storm Buenos Aires' Villa Devoto prison unless all political prisoners were pardoned. Cámpora, who had promised conditional amnesty, caved in. About 500 prisoners in ten jails were released. Among them: Carlos Maguid, a guerrilla who in 1970 kidnaped and murdered former President Pedro Aramburu...
...reported $500,000 ransom for the release of its Argentine manager, Jan Johannes van de Panne, who was kidnaped by some 35 guerrillas as he drove to his plant outside Buenos Aires. Evidently the regime has taken a second look at the advice offered by former President Pedro Aramburu before he was kidnaped and killed by Peronist guerrillas in 1970. On the subject of dealing with terrorists, he wrote: "Human lives are the main thing. If there is a way to save them, it should be done, no matter what the cost...