Word: ongania
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state occasion in Buenos Aires' majestic Colon Theater. In honor of visiting Japanese Crown Prince Akihito, the city had scheduled a gala performance of Stravinsky's ballet Rite of Spring, and Juan Carlos Ongania, the retired general who seized power last year, had agreed to attend. Ongania was not enjoying himself. In the middle of the performance, he rose from the presidential box and ushered his wife and 28-year-old daughter Sara to the rear. Rite of Spring, he informed Mayor Eugenio Schettini the next day, was a dirty ballet and should not be permitted in Buenos...
...Santiago, Nixon talked for two hours with Chile's President Eduardo Frei, then moved on to Buenos Aires for backgrounding conferences with government officials, including Argentine President Juan Carlos Ongania. What about Ongania's military government? With some tact, Nixon remarked: "I give him high marks for picking good men and taking their advice. I'd say this country is fortunate in having a man like...
...Punta del Este conference that they have already begun to communicate with each other in a way that bodes well for the goal of building a Latin American common market. After leaving Punta del Este, Panama's Marco Robles traveled last week with Argentina's Juan Carlos Ongania to Buenos Aires for a twelve-hour personal visit. On his way home to Bogota, Colombia's Carlos Lleras Restrepo stopped over in La Paz to deliver a message to President René Barrientos, who had boycotted the summit meeting. Lleras brought word from Chile's Eduardo Frei...
...five-man Uruguayan guard was assigned to each President in addition to the security forces that each head of state brought with him; Brazil's Costa e Silva brought a 20-man detachment, Argentina's Juan Ongania twelve men. Johnson, of course, outdid them all. Scores of Secret Service men moved through the grounds around Beaulieu, the Johnson residence, chattering into walkie-talkies about the whereabouts of "Volunteer," the code name for Johnson. Whenever he moved, they literally shielded him with a wall of bodies; they even decided to remove the 1,430-lb. chandelier that hung over...
...tough, anti-Communist military government. Last August, Russian Foreign Trade Minister Nikolai Patolichev visited Rio and signed a four-year $100 million credit agreement, making Brazil the biggest recipient of Russian aid in Latin America after Cuba. In Argentina, Soviet relations are almost as cordial with Strongman Juan Carlos Ongania's military government; total trade between the two has gone from $18 million in 1964 to $110 million last year...