Word: aramburu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under bright, balmy skies the holiday-minded crowds gathered early along the broad Avenida San Martin. They packed the balconies of apartment houses, perched on tree branches and jammed the temporary bleachers. Then President Pedro Aramburu, wearing his blue-and-white sash of office, arrived from the National Cathedral, climbed the steps of the reviewing stand, saluted during the national anthem, and the parade began...
...Liberty March, written during the anti-Perón campaign. Despite the fact that there were no fascinating new weapons on display, most of the crowd stayed to the very end. Said one approving spectator : "Those are free men parading-and they mean to stay that way." When President Aramburu stepped down from the stand and got into his car, a cheering crowd broke through police lines and surrounded him, enthusiastically slowing his progress for several blocks...
...annual armed forces banquet last week, President Pedro Aramburu clamped his black-rimmed reading glasses firmly on his nose, then stood before a radio microphone to broadcast the answer to Argentina's biggest political puzzle. National, provincial and municipal elections, he promised, will be held late next year. Probable election month: October...
...question of a constituent convention, he explained, is still being studied. But before the elections a new voting law will be drawn "to replace the fraud" enacted under the regime of Juan Perón. To prove his impartiality, Aramburu emphasized that neither he nor any member of the present provisional government will be eligible to run for office...
...plotters, General Juan José Valle, died in front of the rifles. The other, General Raul Tanco, escaped in disguise to asylum in the Haitian embassy. Pro-government vigilantes, waving machine guns, kidnaped him from his refuge and turned him over to the army for execution. But Aramburu, respecting the right of asylum, ordered Tanco to be sent back to the embassy, from where he will probably take safe foreign exile...