Word: jer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the brief, bloody revolt of June 16, the jolted strongman herded four scapegoats out of his Cabinet. Jerónimo Remorino, Foreign Minister since 1951, was a logical Scapegoat No. 5. As Minister of Worship (the Foreign Minister wears two hats), he had official jurisdiction over church-state relations during Perón's bitter pre-revolt feud with the Roman Catholic Church. But Perón deferred action on Remorino's tendered resignation for a while, possibly to keep the herding from looking like a stampede. Last week, with Remorino disabled by a liver ailment...
What none of the Buenos Aires rumors quite explained was Perón's current taste in off-hours relaxation; piloting a motorboat at 70 m.p.h. on the River Plate, driving racing cars and motorcycles, fencing with Foreign Minister Jerónimo Remorino, dancing all evening with guests at his Olivos estate, which he recently turned over as a clubhouse for the Buenos Aires' High School Girls' Union...
...representative of a country that is openly hostile to the U.S., Argentina's mild, modest Ambassador Hipólito Jesus Paz, 35, has made an impressive number of friends during his 18 months in Washington. He got along so well that his boss, Foreign Minister Jerónimo Remorino, called him "the yanqui." Last month Remorino called Paz home, presumably to fire him. On his arrival, Remorino told Paz: "Young man, you've come to take your test...
Foreign Minister Jerónimo Remorino, a Perón favorite, did hand in his resignation, apparently because of a cabinet row over the country's rickety economic policy, but he withdrew it at the President's request. Argentines took that calmly enough, but were totally perplexed by President Perón's continuing strange behavior. With less than two weeks till election day, he had not yet launched his campaign, made a speech or even stirred from the capital. Twice he postponed scheduled electioneering tours into Santa Fe and Cordoba provinces. Not a single poster...
Argentina's two top diplomats switched jobs last week. In as Foreign Minister went Jerónimo Remorino, 48, succeeding Hipólito Jesús Paz, 34, who took Remorino's former post as ambassador...