Word: frondizi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dour, dedicated man in Argentina's presidential Casa Rosada deliberately projected, soon after taking office last year, a period of intense personal unpopularity bound to stem from painful economic reforms. Last week Arturo Frondizi was bumping bottom-and still coolly determined to get on with his task...
...Frondizi decree cut the lunch period for government employees from an hour to 30 minutes, forced them to work a 9:30-5:30 shift, scrapping the six-hour day. "A danger to health!" cried the Union of Civil Servants, and public workers accustomed to holding second, private jobs, grumbled that the longer hours might force them to give up their government sinecures. That was fine with Frondizi, who hopes thereby to cut 1) the swollen civil service that comprises a third of the nation's workers, and 2) the government budget deficit of $108 million...
...election of twelve provincial legislators in wine-and petroleum-producing Mendoza a fortnight ago measured the fall of Frondizi's popularity: his party lost every seat that it had held. President Frondizi is booed in the newsreels, jeered at on public occasions, disliked by even a large portion of his own party. But he plunges grimly on: "A lowering of the standard of living of Argentines is inevitable during the next two years. It is impossible to continue consuming more than is produced...
...tone of the Latin American speakers at last week's meeting verged on the desperate. Said Argentine President Arturo Frondizi: "The destiny of democracy is at stake." Cuba's Fidel Castro dramatically showed up and won cheers with a blatant demand for $30 billion over a ten-year period. "I realize this means a sacrifice for the U.S. taxpayer," he cried. "But they are so much richer than...
...broadcast a harangue down to his subjects via Havana radio stations: "It is difficult to adapt myself to the idea of passing over Cuba. Naturally, I feel emotional." But he kept right on going-to Brasilia and a meeting with President Juscelino Kubitschek, to Buenos Aires, where President Arturo Frondizi pointedly kept him from provocative public appearances...