Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decisive split developed over an emotionally charged issue: should the vanquished followers of Perón be treated to stern vengeance or lenient tolerance? Some of Lonardi's backers demanded a hard-handed crackdown, picturing...
Those in favor of a crackdown included a secret society of self-styled "democratic, liberal" navy officers and other military men; a group of vengeful firebrands, jailed or exiled under Perón; the Radical Party and other minority parties that opposed Perón in years past and now together held 18 seats on the 20-member Consultative Council that Lonardi recently set up to advise him. Their Cabinet spokesman: Minister of Interior and Justice Eduardo Busso. Their real leader...
Against the crackdown were the rightists and neo-Nazis generally referred to in Argentina as nationalists: a group of unreconstructed Perónistas who hoped to ride back to influence with the nationalists; new right-wing or centrist parties, some under Roman Catholic auspices. Any of these might gain strength by attracting old Peronistas, whose party is now leaderless. Their spokesmen: Presidential Press Secretary Carlos Goyeneche and Army Minister Leon Bengoa...
...liberals' pleasure quickly faded when Lonardi wrote out a manifesto to the nation. Said he: "The government prefers that some guilty persons escape rather than permit some innocent persons to suffer" -a plain slap at Vice President Rojas' plan for mass trials. Further inflaming the crackdown group, Lonardi fired Minister Busso...
...Fighting John" Harding, as tough in action as he is amiable in appearance, helped Montgomery chase Rommel across North Africa, helped Alexander take Italy, more recently presided in London over Britain's crackdown on the Communists in Malaya and the Mau Mau in Kenya. That a soldier of his rank and record should be dispatched to little Cyprus alarmed some Greeks and aroused many to anger. The official Radio Athens, reflecting the continuing Greek irritation over the U.S. vote against U.N. debate of the Cyprus matter, reacted with an anti-American twist: "For every Cypriot [Harding] kills or imprisons...