Word: aramburu
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...Argentine army has 48 active generals, and with a few exceptions they regard the nation's politics and policies as wide open to comment, advice and meddling. Last week President Pedro Aramburu, who (though he is a general himself) believes that the army's functions should be confined to national defense, sacked at least 12 meddlesome generals, including the army commander, and appeared ready to dismiss even more...
Disaffection among high army officers has plagued Aramburu ever since he came to power a year ago. Most ominously, a segment of ultranationalistic top officers, scoffing at Aramburu's ban on military candidacies, has been cheering on a dissident, unassigned general named LeÓn Bengoa as a prospect for presidential elections late next year. The mass firings gave this group a brief surge of hope: Bengoa and some cronies quickly tried to touch off an army uprising...
...Argentine army is split, the navy is not. Aramburu hastily deployed 16 warships in the River Plate off Buenos Aires and La Plata. Insurrectionary fervor cooled off fast. At week's end Bengoa was under arrest, and the government announced, reassuringly, that the shakeup would not be made a pretext for postponing elections...
...potential oil exporters that are now importers, emotional nationalism hinders the search for oil by barring foreign capital from participation. Last week the government oil monopolies in both countries made news, but it was news of hopes and plans, not of discoveries and output. Argentina's President Pedro Aramburu told a gathering of representatives from oil-producing provinces that the national oil agency, YPF, had been put on a new autonomous status so that it could get on with its work. ''The Argentine future in petroleum is extraordinary." said Aramburu, predicting self-sufficiency...
Next day Kubitschek and Zubiria flew on to Uruguay, deciding, by the time they arrived, that they felt "like citizens of the same country." After a noisy airport reception, the Brazilian President left for his own capital, where Vice-President Joao ("Jango") Goulart was entertaining Aramburu; Kubitschek managed to rush from the airport to the final reception for the visiting Argentine. Next day Aramburu sped off to Uruguay for a tumultuous one-day visit before returning to Buenos Aires-and Kubitschek settled down to await the arrival a few hours later of Bolivia's Hernan Siles Zuazo...