Word: aramburu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation, Ongania's only prescription was to tighten censorship and complain that Argentines suffered from "an excess of freedom." The final blow may well have been the loss of prestige that Ongania suffered by the kidnaping two weeks ago of a former President, Lieut. General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, who ruled the country for 2½ years following Peron's ouster. The kidnapers claimed to be Peronistas avenging the execution of 27 of their compatriots who were executed during Aramburu's period in office. Some observers theorize, on the other hand, that the culprits could have been either...
Only two weeks after the kidnaping of General Aramburu in Argentina, West Germany's Ambassador to Brazil, Ehrenfried von Holleben, was seized by terrorists in Rio de Janeiro. The Brazilian government, which had released 15 political prisoners in return for the life of U.S. Ambassador C. Burke El-brick last September, agreed to release 40 prisoners for Von Holleben...
...Human lives are the main thing. If there is a way to save them, it should be done, no matter what the cost." Thus wrote Argentina's onetime President (1955-58), retired Lieut. General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, after the recent rash of political kidnapings that have shaken Latin America. Last week there were fears that the stern, uncompromising Aramburu, 68, had lost his own life to a band of terrorists...
After whisking Aramburu from his modest Buenos Aires apartment, the kidnapers advised the military government of Juan Carlos Ongania that a "revolutionary court" had decreed death for their captive. He was guilty, they claimed, of sending 27 Peronists before firing squads for having attempted a coup against his government in 1956. (In fact, Aramburu was on a back-country trip at the time; his Vice President, Isaac F. Rojas, ordered the executions...
...themselves the "Juan Jose Valle Command," in memory of the Peronist general who led the abortive 1956 coup. But their actual identity and political orientation remained in doubt. Peronist leaders hotly denied involvement, and from his exile in Madrid, 74-year-old Juan Peron warned that the killing of Aramburu could plunge Argentina into civil war, which is exactly what the terrorists seemed to want. Taking advantage of the disorder, 6,000 workers in Cordoba seized eight automobile plants to dramatize their demands for higher wages. In Buenos Aires, Dictator Ongania dramatically reinstated the death penalty -banned since...