Word: aramburu
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...Affairs chief, Henry Holland, called in Argentina a year ago, he diplomatically saluted President Juan Perón as "a great Argentine"-a judgment very much out of fashion among the revolutionaries who now control the country. But when Holland returned to Argentina last week, he found President Pedro Aramburu and his government quite content to forget it and get on with friendship as usual. Holland twice chatted cordially with Aramburu and held lengthy talks with Aramburu's No. 1 economic advisor, Raúl Prebisch. They agreed to go ahead with the $60 million U.S. loan...
With a cheerful clanking of governmental wrenches, Revolutionary President Pedro Aramburu last week unbolted some more of the undemocratic machinery put together over a decade by ex-Dictator Juan Perón. One dramatic decree returned the famed newspaper La Prensa to its original owners. Another dissolved the strongman's Peronista Party...
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...policy toward the Roman Catholic Church. One noon a presidential car rolled up before the residence of Bishop Miguel de Andrea, took him mysteriously off to the big house he founded for working girls. Inside, waiting at a table for a surprise luncheon with the bishop were President Aramburu and Vice President Isaac Rojas. The girls cheered. Liberal Bishop de Andrea is a popular opponent of the old-fogy Church clique that got along fine with Perón until he tried to curb their prerogatives; from the government's graceful and pointed gesture toward the bishop, Argentines drew...
...Gainza Paz, now 81, has phoned Buenos Aires' La Prensa almost every week and demanded of the switchboard operator: "When are you going to give La Prensa back to the owners?" Last week, the switchboard girl answered: "Soon, Señora." Next day, by decree of President Aramburu, La Prensa was taken from the custody of the government, which had expropriated it, and returned to Owner Doña Zelmira and the Paz family. The paper's seizure by Perón, said the decree, was "one of the most implacable persecutions" of the dictatorship. Hours later...