Word: plata
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fourth day, much of the interior was under rebel control, and a powerful fleet under Rojas was in the River Plate threatening to bombard the capital unless Perón quit. As a warning of what might come, rebel warships stood off the beach-resort city of Mar del Plata, shelled port installations and a government oil refinery...
Blackout in the Capital. Because Argentina's capital is a seaport, lying on the broad, deep estuary called the Río de la Plata, a lot depended on what the navy did. The River Plate fleet, apparently on the rebel side from the start, gathered near the Uruguayan shore of the estuary. Admiral Isaac Rojas, commander of the rebel fleet, proclaimed a blockade of the capital. "The entire navy is heading for Buenos Aires," he said, contradicting repeated government assertions that the high-seas fleet was peaceably anchored at a port in southern Argentina. The rebels threatened...
When Commander Schaeffer brought U-977 into Mar del Plata Harbor on Aug. 17, 1945, he was ready for almost anything but the suspicion that most interested the Allied commissioners who questioned him: that U-977 had carried Hitler to some South American hideaway. Schaeffer eventually convinced them it had not. The legend that Hitler is still alive annoys Schaeffer. Its danger, he feels, is that Germans may believe it and sit back "waiting for ghosts to return from the grave to do their work for them...
...Argentina last week the city of La Plata (pop. 200,000) was renamed Eva Perón. So will be all the streets and plazas throughout the country which hitherto had borne the name of onetime President Bartolomé Mitre. So will one school in every district, and all first-grade schoolrooms in Buenos Aires Province. Many moppets henceforth will attend classes in the Eva Perón room of Eva Perón school of Eva Perón city...
Thus far Peron has confined his aggression to the region south of the Plata and east of the Andes. But there is no guarantee that he will not eventually expand his operations and give his neighbors more than the slight case of jitters they are now experiencing. Though the American countries may not yet be ready for action against Argentina, they should make it clear at their conference that they will act strongly if and when Peron's aggressive tendencies get out of the "purely domestic" state...