Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble on the hill was not over. When guards were ordered to take back control of the prison, they talked of staging their own revolt. Said one: "Those cons have collected weapons we'll be months in finding." Grumbled another: "We should go in there and shake the place down on the pay ($328 monthly maximum) we get?" But finally the guards went back in, and the prison went back to the control of the state. Said one guard: "They gave 'em everything but a guaranteed annual pardon...
...happier circumstances-for Argentina, at any rate-Juan Domingo Perón might have made an excellent naval damage-control officer. Last week he set coolly about the job of containing and repairing his losses from the June revolt. For President Perón, the single worst damage from the explosion was public outrage at the burning of nine Roman Catholic churches by Peronista arsonists (see below). It was to the task of conciliating the church, with the least possible loss of face, that he turned first...
Church officials preserved strict silence on political matters, but several thousand of their communicants staged a spontaneous procession to the burned churches, and shouted for the return of Bishop Manuel Tato, one of the high-ranking prelates exiled by Perón just before the revolt. In another effective gesture. Buenos Aires' Bishop Miguel de Andrea, the only high-ranking Argentine prelate who steadfastly opposed Perón during the 1945-54 period, threw off his colorful vestments at the altar in burned San Miguel Church and told the congregation that henceforth he would wear only simple black...
...army in its place, which (for the higher officer corps) seems to be that of a dictator-admiring gang, happy with the pay, perquisites and polite graft that Perón provides. Despite persistent reports that the rebellious elements of the navy still had some bargaining power, he removed revolt-leading Rear Admiral Anibal Olivieri from comfortable barracks arrest to the National Penitentiary, and arrested officers at the Belgrano naval base. Then Perón called off the state of siege declared at the height of the revolt...
...churches-nine in all-were set afire the night of the June 16 revolt against Juan Perón. The damage was not the work of rioting mobs (or of Communists, as Perón said) but rather of methodical arsonists. At the 233-year-old Church of San Ignacio, a terrified caretaker saw them: 30 or 40 swarthy, roughly dressed men carrying crowbars and bottles of gasoline. While dust still hung over the nearby Plaza de Mayo, bombed a few hours earlier, the men marched into the church. Within minutes, flames were consuming San Ignacio's great cedar...