Word: uruguay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parliamentary immunity, Cattáneo was immediately subject to arrest on the new criminal charge of "disrespect" to the President. Two former Radical deputies, Ernesto Sammartino and Agustín Rodríguez Araya, previously ejected from the Chamber, had set him an example by fleeing to Uruguay (TIME, Oct. 10). While police searched 64 public establishments and private homes (including those of two high-ranking army officers), Cattáneo gave them the slip in the middle of a downtown Buenos Aires traffic jam. At week's end he, too, apparently was safe in Montevideo. The grapevine reported...
...still dallying with his old friend Paz Estenssoro, he was carefully concealing it. Having previously packed the M.N.R. leader off to Uruguay, he closed the Bolivian border, ordered his police chief to keep a sharp eye on other Bolivians still in the country, promised to arrest any rebels chased across the border into Argentine territory...
...mock amazement. "We haven't gone crazy yet," he added. Argentina's President was assuring a group of Brazilian newsmen that he had no designs on his neighbors. "It has been said that we want to resurrect the old viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata [which included Uruguay, Paraguay and part of Bolivia]. When they say that, I always say: 'We have lots of land and we don't need any more...
Washington did not. Instead, at 1:45 p.m., the Army notified Uruguay's agents that the bidding time had been extended until 5. After failing to contact Montevideo, the agents held off further bids. At 5:20, they were shocked to hear that the lowest bidder, with a last minute offer of $27.55, was an Argentine firm. When they again lowered their bid to $27.50 the next morning, the Uruguayans were told that the contract had been awarded...
...only plausible explanation was based on the fact that radiotelephone calls between Montevideo and the U.S. are routed through-and often overheard in -Buenos Aires. Somebody in Argentina might have listened to Uruguay's next-to-deadline bid, hastily asked Washington to extend the deadline, then put in the lower bid. After that, something might have delayed all calls between Montevideo and Chicago until the bidding had closed...