Word: casas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Campo Mayo. One day last year Porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) were alarmed by the regular thud of military boots on the Avenida General Paz, the rumble of moving caissons. From the Campo Mayo, Army headquarters, dashed truckloads of soldiers with machine guns. They converged on Casa Rosada, Argentina's Government House. In less than half a day the corrupt, unpopular, three-year administration of President Ramon S. Castillo was ended...
...sergeant major at the start of World War II, he was a captain when the 1st Canadian Division moved to Italy. In December Captain Triquet, 80 Van Doos and six tanks were ordered to take tiny Casa Berardi, where German troops barred the road to Ortona. In the first advance towards the gun-studded stone houses, half of Triquet's men and all his officers were either killed or wounded. Said Triquet: "The only safe place is our objective." He, two sergeants and 15 men made it. There they dug in and Triquet repeated Nivelle's famed order...
Before dawn two truckloads of officers took over the Foreign Ministry, told Foreign Minister Alberto Gilbert over the telephone that his resignation had been "accepted." Others went to the Casa Rosada, and informed the Secretary of the Presidency, Enrique Gonzalez, that he also had "resigned...
...small crowd gathered in the rain last week in front of Buenos Aires Casa Rosada (Pink House), heard President Ramirez announce that Argentina had broken diplomatic relations with Germany and Japan. The last and most reluctant nation of Latin America had put a tentative foot in the United Nations camp...
...Casa Rosada, Argentina's White House, police had prepared sandbag barricades and machine-gun positions. To General Domingo Martinez, Buenos Aires Police Chief, President Castillo gave orders to defend the city. But when the troops marched in the police made it clear that they were acting "to maintain order only" -there was no resistance from them. By 10 o'clock, the President had fled his residence for the safety of the Drummond, where he stayed until the excitement was over. By 3 o'clock the machine guns at the Casa Rosada had disappeared; two hours later General...