Word: levingston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidential occupants, elected or not. Juan Carlos Ongania, installed after the last civilian government was overthrown in 1966, was ejected last June by his former military comrades for planning a corporate-style state with himself as its permanent head. Ongania's humorless, moody successor, Roberto M. Levingston, succumbed to the same dreams of grandeur; some of his aides even took to calling him "the Emperor." He overestimated his own power and underestimated that of the army chief who had given him the presidency in the first place, Lieut. General Alejandro A. Lanusse. Thus Levingston last week maneuvered himself...
Importing Beef. In a futile power play, the President sought to remove the army strongman, and with him any threat to Levingston's ambitions. Accordingly, he announced that he was firing Lanusse for failing to preserve civil order-and placing him under arrest. But as the President tried vainly to make the order stick, military units around the country rallied to Lanusse's side. Levingston resigned and Argentina returned to direct military rule, under a junta comprised of Lanusse, Navy Admiral Pedro Gnavi and Air Force Brigadier General Carlos Rey. Lanusse took over the presidency while retaining command...
Most alarmed of all were the military regimes bordering on Chile. The Bolivian government feared that Allende would allow leftist guerrillas to operate from sanctuaries in Chile. An adviser to Argentine President Roberto Marcelo Levingston, predicting that Allende's victory would cause Argentina's military budget to be doubled, declared: "It's a disaster. It means we have two Cubas in Latin America instead...
Force Brig. General Carlos A. Rey, appointed a brother officer to the Presidency. He is Brig. General Roberto Marcelo Levingston, who has been serving as Argentina's representative on the InterAmerican Defense Board, headquartered in Washington...