Word: argentina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although there have been suggestions that the mission be called off, Rockefeller seems determined to continue with the third installment of his tour-visits to Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay. By week's end Uruguay indicated that it, too, would like to cancel the visit but would prefer that the initiative come from Washington. The other three governments-all of them military regimes-are confident that they can welcome Rocky while keeping their militant activists in check. Even so, large U.S. Secret Service details were checking out local security conditions with the kind of minute attention to detail that...
Whatever other failings his regime might have, Argentine Dictator Juan Carlos Ongania could fairly claim that he had given his country "a climate of work, of tranquillity, of peace" since he took over 35 months ago. Last week Argentina's placid surface was shattered, as riots spread through the nation's largest cities. The demonstrations pitted an alliance of students and workers against the army-posing the severest test yet for Ongania's rule...
...policemen in the classrooms. Now, they took to the streets. The police met them with gunfire, killing a 21-year-old medical student. The riots soon spread to half a dozen other cities. Last week, demonstrators protesting two more student deaths took over a 50-block area in Rosario, Argentina's second largest city, and held it for several hours, until they were routed by troops acting under martial...
Once again, repression served only to inflame. In Córdoba, Argentina's chief manufacturing city, some 10,000 demonstrators swept through a 40-block area of the city, battled police from behind barricades, and burned at least 100 cars...
...visit to the bigger nations lies ahead. The mission returns home this week. It resumes May 27, headed for such eventual destinations as Argentina and Brazil, where military regimes are in power. One of the first stops is Peru, headed on a collision course with Washington over compensation for the expropriation of the International Petroleum Co.'s properties...