Word: frondizi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city, talking to government officials, housewives in shopping queues, workers. Putting together the material from Halper, Scott and others, Latin American Specialist Peter Bird Martin wrote the story. This is his seventh cover story on Latin American figures; the last one, just a month ago, told of Arturo Frondizi's collapsing regime in Argentina...
...Monday to Sunday. The reactionaries took photographs of this señor in the midst of feast and drunken carousals. Any day, in one of these carousals the military will grab him and take him to an embassy [where] he will wake up. He has been more cowardly than Frondizi." Then Castro shifted his glare to an old foe, Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt, who recently sharply criticized Argentina's military for overthrowing President Arturo Frondizi. Cried Castro: "Who is Señor Betancourt but a murderer of workers and students? And how does he react in the face...
...that still operates such fruitful enterprises as steel plants, chemical complexes, vehicle-assembly plants and motor-scooter factories. For a front man to give a semblance of legality, the military sounded out Senate President (pro tern) José Maria Guido, 52, a small-town lawyer and a member of Frondizi's Intransigent Radical Party, whose ambitions did not include the President's overthrow. Guido said no. Not until Frondizi phoned just before leaving for his prison island and freed him to take the presidency to avoid civil war did Guido agree...
Wait & See. Across Argentina, only the most muted protest rose over this bald assumption of power by the generals. A few small crowds gathered to shout "Viva Frondizi"-and were quickly dispersed by military tear gas. Most of the provincial governors, Intransigent Radicals themselves, called for Frondizi's restoration. The Perónistas, whose fanatical partisans smeared Buenos Aires with painted slogans (but got no financial help from Perón, who kept his millions to himself) during the election campaign, stayed safely at home...
...which had supported Frondizi and had hoped to make Argentina a showcase for the Alliance for Progress, was in a quandary. How deep was obvious from President Kennedy's answer to a question at his press conference: "Well, I think the events there are still uncertain, and now from the reports still not clear enough, and I think, therefore, it would be unwise, lacking that kind of precise information, for us to make comment at this time on the events in another country." A top State Department official interpreted: "We're waiting to see what happens." Ecuador & Peru...