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...dour, dedicated man in Argentina's presidential Casa Rosada deliberately projected, soon after taking office last year, a period of intense personal unpopularity bound to stem from painful economic reforms. Last week Arturo Frondizi was bumping bottom-and still coolly determined to get on with his task...
President Arturo Frondizi sat in a gilded chair in the Casa Rosada one evening las,t week and nervously slaughtered one of the oldest sacred cows in Argentine political life. He reported that he had abandoned Argentina's long-revered nationalistic policy of going it entirely alone in oil development. He had closed or was about to close nearly $1 billion worth of contracts with foreign oil companies...
Last week, for the first time in this century, Argentina's navy fired in anger at a foreign target-maybe. President Arturo Frondizi called a press conference at the Casa Rosada to announce the news. The President disclosed that an Argentine squadron had sighted a periscope while on fleet exercises in Golfo Nuevo, a quiet Patagonian bay, and carried out four depth-charge attacks when the sub ignored the warning to surface as required by international...
...joined three other army officers in the beginning of the plot that finally dethroned Perón. Over the years the plotters brought in officers from the other services. They drew first blood from the dictatorship on June 16, 1955, when navy and air force planes bombed the Casa Rosada, the downtown presidential office building, killing 360. But Perón had fled minutes before to the neighboring Army Ministry...
...finds the rough-and-tumble of politics a noisy bore. Once, during a particularly tedious Cabinet session, he murmured something about having to leave "for urgent reasons," went to a side door of the Casa Rosada and hailed a taxi. He rode to a teashop, had a leisurely dish of ice cream, taxied back to the office, gravely rejoined the session. Junta meetings seem more natural to him. Aramburu greets his high military counselors casually: "Hello, Rojas. Afternoon, Admiral. General, how are you?" To them he remains "Senor Presidente." There is always some banter and small talk before the junta...