Word: rosada
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most important among them was Army Commander in Chief Alsogaray, the man Onganía was really after. It was he who had helped engineer the coup in 1966 that removed President Arturo Illia from office and installed Onganía in Buenos Aires' Casa Rosada. The liberal-minded lieutenant general, often acting in concert with his brother Alvaro, Argentina's Ambassador to the U.S., had taken a major role in shaping the military government's "Argentine revolution." That program promised economic reform to bolster the country's flagging economy. But Alsogaray favored a more democratic...
Ongania's outrage was no surprise. During his 14 months in the Casa Rosada, the mustachioed strongman has all but declared sex illegal in his already strait-laced country. His regime has put Argentina's few tame girly magazines out of business, ordered nightclubs to keep their lights bright at all times and outlawed kissing in public parks. It has banned such widely acclaimed films as the Czech-made Loves of a Blonde and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, based on a short story by Argentina's Julio Cortazar; it recently ordered a popular local television...
...military coup. Dissatisfied with Illia's laissez-faire philosophy of government, and particularly alarmed at the prospect of a Peronist victory in the gubernatorial elections next March, the army had just handed Illia a warning to get a move on-or else. So into the Casa Rosada last week filed his eight ministers, ten ministerial-rank Secretaries of State and Vice President Carlos Humberto Perette. When they filed out again, they promised the army that action would be taken. From now on, the Cabinet decided, it would meet with the President every week...
Looking for Leadership. In answer to all this, Illia remains placidly in his Casa Rosada office, seeing all who come to call, but issuing few orders. As head of a government that includes everyone from right to left, he remains the one possible unifying figure, but he does little to fulfill the role. His opposition is beginning to score by labeling his regime the government of the turtle; one group recently released 200 tortoises in downtown Buenos Aires with the slogan LONG LIVE THE GOVERNMENT On their backs. Illia's response to that was: "Turtle? Fine. Slow but sure...
...weeks of trouble in Argentina were Veteran Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Piero Saporiti, 60, and Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief John Blashill, 33. Stationed in Buenos Aires since before Frondizi was elected four years ago, Saporiti held good cards when the game got rough. He went to the Casa Rosada, Argentina's White House, where scores of newsmen were clamoring to see the embattled president. Saporiti was let in a side door, ushered into a small salon next to Frondizi's office. Frondizi walked in, greeted his old friend, made him swear that he would not tell...