Word: rdoba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After popular demonstrations forced López Rega to quit last July, Isabel became a near recluse. At her infrequent public appearances, she was visibly nervous, often tearful and sometimes nearly hysterical. Last fall, claiming failing health, she took a leave to retreat to the hills of Córdoba to regain her strength. Many Argentines felt-and hoped-that she would resign. Yet 32 days later she returned to the capital, only to be hospitalized within a few weeks for a gall bladder attack that seemed more political than physical...
...bloodless "pocket rebellion" by the air force began during the week be fore Christmas, when Brigadier General Héctor Luis Fautario, the air force commander, arrived at one of Buenos Aires' airports to fly to Córdoba. Fautario, an unpopular general unswervingly loyal to President Perón, was detained by high-ranking fellow officers, who thereupon declared a rebellion. Military leaders, apparently sharing the general dislike of Fautario, quickly acceded to one of the rebels' demands and dismissed him. But Fautario's successor, Brigadier General Orlando Ramon Agosti, was unsympathetic to the rebels...
Long Walks. The next day a worn, anemically thin Isabel Perón, 44, boarded a plane and was flown to an air force recreation camp in the hills of Córdoba province 560 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. She was accompanied by the wives of the three armed forces commanders, whose evident role was to demonstrate that she still had the support of the military establishment. Inside the heavily guarded camp, where she is expected to stay for at least 45 days, she began a routine of long walks in the Argentine spring sunshine, playing golf and watching...
...angry rank and file. A proposed ceiling of 45% imposed by decree was likewise angrily rejected. At week's end the wage talks were deadlocked, and workers seemed on the verge of industrial turmoil. There was a two-day strike at heavy-industry plants in Córdoba; when demonstrations were banned by the authorities acting under state-of-siege powers, three policemen were gunned down at a power station just outside the city. In Buenos Aires, police broke up a demonstration by taxi drivers outside Government House; the riderless drivers want a supply of cheap gasoline set aside...
...more than twice as many have been wounded; several houses and a newspaper have been hit by fire bombs; and a bank has been blown up. The catalogue of horrors even includes what might be called a municipal coup in the traditionally leftist industrial city of Córdoba (pop. 1 million). There police officials forcibly overthrew the legally elected left-wing governor of the province...