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...While in Santiago, Einaudi met representatives from the student organization of Argentina (FUA) and these students told him that their group was forced to go underground during the entire last year of Peron's rule. In addition, they said many members of their organization had either been imprisoned or executed in this time. Einaudi, as an NSA representative, was invited to Buenos Aires to learn of the repressive regime for himself...
...week earlier Origins. Born Sept. 17, 1896. in Buenos Aires, son of a music teacher of Italian descent. Family name was originally Leonardi Military Career. Graduated from the national military academy as artillery lieutenant. Taught tactics at Superior War College in 1930s. Appointed Argentine military attaché in Santiago, Chile in 1943, where he succeeded Colonel Juan Perón who had been suspected of espionage by Chilean government. Served as Argentina's representative on Inter-American Defense Board in Washington in 1947-48. Retired as two-star general in 1951 after dismissal from command of Frist Army...
...center of Córdoba, Argentina's third biggest city (pop. 350,000). Two Gloster Meteor jet fighters flown by air-force pilots rained down leaflets declaring that the city "has been conquered again for God and the fatherland." Rebel sailors took over the naval bases at Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano (see map). Army garrisons seized control of the inland barracks towns of Arroyo Seco and Curuzu-Cuati...
State of Siege. Under the command of General Franklin Lucero, Perón's trusted Army Minister, the government fought back. Lucero & Co. put the entire country under a state of siege, clamped an 8 p.m. curfew on the capital. Loyalist forces besieged the Rio Santiago naval base. Pounded by planes and outnumbered at least two to one on the ground, the defending navymen surrendered late that night. The next morning the government announced that its troops had wrested Arroyo Seco and Curuzú-Cuatiá from the rebels...
...with spit and polish, ceremonial banquet tables were laid. Reason: a merry-go-round of formal state visits by Latin American chiefs of government. The President of Venezuela visited Lima in June,, and next week the President of Peru will return the courtesy. The President of Bolivia went to Santiago in February, is expected to visit Bogota in September. The President of Chile will visit Bolivia this month. President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Colombia landed in Ecuador last week for chats with his neighbor, President Velasco Ibarra...