Word: frondizi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gaunt and pale from recurrent flu attacks and daily overwork, President Arturo Frondizi battled his way through the worst crisis in his regime's troubled three months of life. He won a breather last week mainly because the going got rough enough to alarm even the Peronistas who had started all the trouble...
Elected with the votes of ex-Dictator Juan Peron's diehard followers, Frondizi nevertheless received his sash of office from the military men who had booted Peron, and he is still torn between these two suspicious, irreconcilable forces. Early this month the Peronista "tactical command," already rewarded by a 20% blanket wage increase and a political-amnesty bill, met behind guarded doors in Buenos Aires and twisted the screws tighter. Frondizi got word to drop all court cases against Peronistas, return all Peronista property, and fire the federal judges appointed by the military regime...
Judges Fired. On the last point, Frondizi seemed ready to give in. He handed the Senate his list of nominations for permanent judgeships, and his intentions were plain. Of 145 judges, 35 anti-Peronistas lost their jobs. Every judge sitting on a case against Peron, e.g., graft treason, his love affair with 14-year-old Nelly Rivas was either dropped Or promoted to a higher but less sensitive job. The nominations sent anti-Peronistas riot through the Palace of Justice. They rained jeers and firecrackers down from the galleries, exploded a bomb in an upper-story closet, shattering the walls...
...cold, misty night, 10,000 oppositionists gathered in Constitution Plaza to hear People's Radical Party leaders end their postelection truce by charging Frondizi with selling out to both Peronistas and Communists. More ominous than the rally was a flurry of small, secret meetings among young anti-Peronista officers in barracks and military clubs...
...After the attacks," said Frondizi, "there were oil slicks on the surface of the sea as when a submarine is damaged." Sonar gear aboard the Argentine ships established that the unidentified sub was a "high-speed" modern craft, i.e., U.S., British or Russian...