Word: frondizi
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...Casa Rosada. A few lifelong personal friends kept an uncomfortable vigil in an ivory and green anteroom. Outside the door, a pair of knee-booted grenadiers of the palace guard stood, like life-sized toys, with ceremonial sabers bared. A stream of messengers came and went, bearing bulletins. Arturo Frondizi, 53, President of Argentina and currently his country's most unpopular man, was waiting to see whether he would be allowed to remain as elected Chief Executive of South America's second big gest nation. Frondizi swore he would remain: "Only my person stands between order and chaos...
...only three weeks ago he committed $150 million to it. Argentina had once recklessly squandered its patrimony under Dictator Juan Per&243;n. But now, unlike Brazil-its chief rival for attention in Latin America -Argentina was showing many of the elements of sensible development. And in Arturo Frondizi it seemed to have found a leader who was willing to do the hard things to make his country economically sound...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, March 18--President Arturo Frondizi's party conceded victory tonight to Communist-backed followers of exiled ex-dictator Juan D. Peron in congressional and provincial elections...
...massive wave of pro-Peron ballots struck a shattering blow at the Frondizi government and indirectly at President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress aid to Latin America...
Giving In. He made his reluctance plain. Though Argentina's President personally abhors both Communism and Castro (whose Foreign Minister once called Frondizi a "viscous blob of human excrescences"), he finds it politically expedient, both at home and abroad, to play the neutral. Maneuvering for time, he went before the nation to make an angry speech defending Argentina's-and his own-independence in world affairs. If Frondizi expected an outburst of public support, he did not get it. When the military men backed up their ultimatum by boycotting a presidential state dinner for Belgium's visiting...