Word: cordoba
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...well depend on how well Lanusse, 52, deals with the economic ills that accompany Argentina's political unrest. In the face of mounting inflation, Lanusse repealed a government decree that kept a ceiling of 19% on wage increases. He had little choice; union leaders in riot-plagued Cordoba had promised more violence unless the wage ceiling was abolished...
...after the bloody labor rioting last year at the industrial city of Cordoba in which 22 persons were killed, Ongania's power began to crumble. While the country was beset by a wave of crime and violence and a gradual return of inflation, Ongania's only prescription was to tighten censorship and complain that Argentines suffered from "an excess of freedom." The final blow may well have been the loss of prestige that Ongania suffered by the kidnaping two weeks ago of a former President, Lieut. General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, who ruled the country for 2½ years...
...remained in doubt. Peronist leaders hotly denied involvement, and from his exile in Madrid, 74-year-old Juan Peron warned that the killing of Aramburu could plunge Argentina into civil war, which is exactly what the terrorists seemed to want. Taking advantage of the disorder, 6,000 workers in Cordoba seized eight automobile plants to dramatize their demands for higher wages. In Buenos Aires, Dictator Ongania dramatically reinstated the death penalty -banned since 1921-for kidnapers who kill or seriously wound their victims...
...pull ancient carriages along streets lined with orange trees toward the world's largest Gothic cathedral. But across the Guadalquivir, tens of thousands of spinning bobbins turn raw cotton and wool into finished fabric in one of Europe's largest textile plants. In the main square of Cordoba, an Arab caliphate for 250 years, a transcribed electric guitar chimes the hour in flamenco rhythm. In Bilbao, shipyards work round the clock to keep pace with orders for merchant vessels from all over the world-including Communist Poland and Cuba. "Everything is changing in Spain," says Industrialist Eduardo Barreiros...
...Symbol. And a fetish is what El Cordobés is. An orphan named Manuel Benitez who grew up on the streets of Cordoba and broke into bullfighting the hard way-by jumping into the Madrid ring from his seat in the stands-he is every Spaniard's dream of the poor boy who made good. He owns four ranches, a fleet of Mercedes and a six-seat private plane, and is building a seven-story hotel in Cordoba. With his serious young face, battered body and brilliant white smile, he has also become Spain's leading...