Word: belgrano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what he said was a pre-election pact between himself and Frondizi. Thus provoked, the plotters moved up the date. At the signal-to be given by Rear Admiral Arturo Rial-the traditionally anti-Peronist Córdoba garrison would rise, and warships from the Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano bases would steam along the River Plate and blockade Buenos Aires. It was roughly the same plan that toppled Peron in 1955-Fatal Flaw. But the plan had a paradoxical flaw: too many other officers outside the plot were also angry with Frondizi. After the Peron "revelation," two nonplotting generals...
...general staff in Buenos Aires correctly concluded that it could contain the uprising-and it probably would have, except for a rebel admiral named Isaac Rojas, who had commanded the uprising at a naval base, was now heading for the capital in the captured cruiser General Belgrano, once the U.S.S. Phoenix. Rojas' fighting reputation had gone ahead of him. "Damnation!" growled Perón, "he's likely to shoot!"-and scampered for refuge in the Paraguayan embassy. Says Aramburu now: "We never expected him to prove such a coward. If he had taken the field against...
...which already owns banks in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico, pushed into Idaho and Utah in a race against time. Most bankers expect sales of independent banks to out-of-state holding companies to be banned under legislation now pending in Congress. However, said Frank N. Belgrano Jr., Transamerica's 60-year-old president and chairman, Transamerica's recent purchases had been suggested by local banks that wanted to sell. This week Transamerica's traders moved on to Ogden, Utah, Marriner Eccles' home base, to discuss a deal with the Bank of Utah...
...first government communiqué boasted that "the subversive movement is under control," and rebel units "are being dominated." Such claims were absurdly premature. In Córdoba the besieged police headquarters fell to rebel attackers after a half-hour artillery bombardment. From the Puerto Belgrano naval base, 400 miles southwest of Buenos Aires, naval units marched into the neighboring grain port...
Blanca. Said a rebel radio announcement from Puerto Belgrano: "This is not a revolt of two or four hours. We will carry on as long as is necessary. We ask the Argentine people to join us in our struggle for truth, morality and liberty...