Word: richter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Juan Perón extended his war against the free press to the big U.S. news agencies serving Argentine newspapers. Last week Associated Press came under heavy fire for picking up a Rio report that Perón had arrested his atomic energy expert, Dr. Ronald Richter (TIME, May 28). One Perónista newspaper raged at A.P. as "anti-Argentine." Another, in a curious echo of Pravda's familiar vocabulary, blasted the agency as a practitioner of "gangster journalism" and an agent in a "persistent and infamous plan to attack the Argentine republic...
...Argentine government made a cagily indirect answer last week to reports that Juan Perón had arrested Ronald Richter, his "atomic scientist" (TIME, May 28). Newspapers announced that Professor Richter and his laboratory associates would observe a national holiday by working 24 hours straight...
...Richter made no public appearance. Instead, Juan Perón issued a decree placing the entire Huemul Island atomic energy program under his own direction. On top of that, Professor Cornelius Jan Bakker, a leading Dutch nuclear physicist, arrived at Huemul Island under a dense cloak of secrecy. He was apparently brought in as a result of recent talks between Perón and The Netherlands' good-will ambassador, Prince Bernhard...
...Bakker in Argentina to run a check on Dr. Richter? That was what Netherlanders surmised. Their theory: suspicious of Richter, but leary of getting involved with atomic experts from the U.S., Britain or Canada, Perón asked Prince Bernhard for a qualified Dutch scientist to audit Richter's books...
...Furious, Perón ordered Dr. Richter arrested," reported Tribuna. "But he has not publicly announced the action, nor is it likely that he will. News of the arrest is being guarded in deepest secrecy by the few persons close to Perón . . . This time Señor Perón is not in the same hurry to call in news correspondents as he was when he announced the sensational discovery of an Argentine thermal nuclear process for the liberation of atomic energy...