Word: frondizi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most pragmatic politician-statesman is Argentine President Arturo Frondizi, a man whose goals, once set, stay set. Characteristically, the goals Frondizi set for his journey to the U.S. and the U.N. last week were rigid-but realistic. He was determined to convince highly placed North Americans of his unwavering commitment to Western democracy, and he aimed to convince them that his kind of Argentina is worth helping. At the U.N. he resolved to cement his role as the independent-minded spokesman for Latin America now that Brazil's Jánio Quadros has come a cropper. Frondizi could count...
With similar business on his mind, Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi arrives in the U.S. this week. The avowed purpose for his journey is a speech before the U.N. General Assembly. But the success of the trip hangs most heavily on the crucial hours that the crisis-ridden Argentine President is scheduled to spend in informal conversation with Kennedy in New York City. Frondizi believes that the Alliance for Progress should focus on nations already on the road to economic maturity (i.e., Argentina) as an object lesson for less fortunate nations. Cost of the focus on Argentina...
...longer, with interruptions for autographs-from him, not from me." Che surprisingly agreed. He told an interviewer that it was a "short, courteous and cold meeting, and was not important." But Che used the Goodwin talks as a wedge to wangle himself a secret appointment with Argentine President Arturo Frondizi. He then flew off to make the same coexistence offer in Buenos Aires...
...news of the private meeting. Argentina's anti-Castro armed forces went up like land mines. The three service secretaries threatened to resign. Frondizi lamely explained that if Kennedy's man Goodwin could talk to Guevara, then he, as President of Argentina, could see him, too, couldn't he? Over TV, he emphasized that his government was Christian, democratic, and committed to the West. Two nights later, he was on TV again saying that Castro "employs procedures which we Argentines reject categorically...
...week's end, the brass was still rumbling noisily. And Frondizi's Foreign Minister Adolfo Múgica. who originally leaked the news of the Frondizi-Guevara téte a téte, was asked to resign...