Word: plata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of La Plata, students turned 20 blocks in the center of town into a battlefield. They blacked out the area by breaking street lights, then tripped up mounted policemen with low-strung wires. Over an improvised radio station, engineering students broadcast denunciations of the military regime...
...second Nazi submarine, the 600-ton U-977, last week popped up off the Argentine naval base of Mar del Plata. She showed the swastika flag, startled a lonely fisherman. Then Argentine war craft mothered her into port. Cracked Montevideo's El Diario: "It is surprising, this marked preference of Nazi vessels for Argentina...
...submarine base at swank Mar del Plata, fishermen trolled through the wintry, misty Argentine dawn. Out of the grey murk loomed the bulk of a big sub marine. Its engines silent, it rolled gently with the waves. The fishermen noted the craft's unfamiliar lines, went right on fishing...
...crew of 54 men to a hot meal and a haircut, then interned them in a Navy rest camp. Skipper Wermoutt's story: on V-E day, the U-530 was operating in the North Atlantic. He had decided to surrender at Mar del Plata. He did not explain why it had taken him more than two months to get there, why the sub had jettisoned its deck guns, why the crew members carried no identification, nor what had happened to the ship...
...foreign pressure, the Argentine Government had already announced that it would free its political prisoners. It actually freed some 265. Invited back from exile in Montevideo was Argentina's revered elder statesman, walrus-mustached Alfredo Palacios, a vigorous antifascist, to resume his old job as president of La Plata University...