Word: aramburu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government unfettered the courts, named high-caliber judges, staged free union elections, stamped out most corruption. Most important, without the incessant dawdling of most Latin American military governments, the regime scheduled presidential and congressional elections, set next Feb. 23 as the hard-and-fast date for them. Aramburu barred any official of his government, including himself, from running in the elections. He also called for the election on July 28 of a Constituent Assembly to enact constitutional amendments aimed at curbing presidential powers and strengthening Congress, to head off future dictatorships...
...appeasing Peronistas in the hope of forming them into a right-wing political party. Item: Lonardi refused to take La Prensa away from the C.G.T. Other revolutionary leaders watched in rising dismay. One Sunday afternoon two months after Lonardi took office, the revolutionaries gently eased him out and installed Aramburu, who, as army chief of staff, had been impressively deperonizing the officer corps. President Aramburu never saw his plotting companion again. Lonardi died within four months of a cancer that had begun to weaken him even before he was deposed...
...Aramburu and Rojas brought the rudder back from right to dead ahead, and got on with their mission. The government restored the U.S.-style constitution that had served, until Peron emasculated it, since 1853. The regime wiped Peron's name from public display in Argentina, except for curbstone scribblings and his father's tomb. An expedition was sent up Aconcagua, the Hemisphere's highest (alt. 22,835 ft.) mountain, to topple a bust of the dictator. A team of clerks screened thousands of references to his name from the Buenos Aires telephone book-but recently discovered that...
...challenge of violent opposition by bitter-end Peronistas, Aramburu has been harsh. A year ago, when Peronista General Juan Jose Valle, Aramburu's classmate at the Military Academy, led a shooting attempt at counterrevolution, the President, weeping, signed an order for Valle's execution by firing squad...
...shut down. Despite austerity, purchases last year cost $184 million more than Argentina's foreign sales brought in. That left not a centavo to spare for catching up on power and fuel needs. Both were jobs that private foreign capital, if welcomed, would like to try. But Aramburu, feeling the hot breath of prideful nationalism, has not given the invitation. The $500 million, U.S.-owned American & Foreign Power Co. Inc. offered last December to invest $145 million and double Buenos Aires' power supply. Argentina declined. With all too little exaggeration, one power expert predicts...