ARGENTINA: ADMIRAL AND JOURNALIST FIGHT DUEL IN BUENOS AIRES.

Record ID: 375954

  • Title: ARGENTINA: ADMIRAL AND JOURNALIST FIGHT DUEL IN BUENOS AIRES.
  • Date: 5th November 1968
  • Summary: DUEL; DUEL DIRECTOR STOPS FIGHT; CONTESTANTS ARGUING. Initials GEP/VS/BHH/SC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th November 1968 13:00
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  • Location: BUENOS AIRES/ARGENTINA
  • Country: Argentina
  • Reuters ID: LVABUFJRV2NNXAWV9S3JX21LGTA1
  • Story Text: FORMER ARGENTINIAN NAVAL COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, ADMIRAL BENIGNO VARELA, FOUGHT A 25-MINUTE DUEL IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, ON SUNDAY (3 NOVEMBER) WITH JOURNALIST AND PUBLISHER JOLIVIAN BIGLIERI. SENOR BIGLIERI WROTE IN HIS NEWSPAPER 'LA AUTONOMIA' THAT 'ANOTHER TRAITOR HAS GONE' WHEN THE ADMIRAL WAS RELIEVED OF HIS POST A MONTH AGO.

    THE DUEL WAS STOPPED BY THE DUEL DIRECTOR, SENOR SCIPUR ROZATTI, AFTER BOTH CONTESTANTS HAD BEEN WOUNDED. THE ADMIRAL - WHO WAS HURT FIRST - WAS CUT ON THE LEFT CHEEK AND EAR, AND SENOR BIGLIERI ON THE LEFT CHEEKBONE. BOTH MEN SAID THAT HONOUR WAS SATISFIED, BUT BOTH REFUSED RECONCILIATION AND THEY PARTED ON BAD TERMS.

    THE DUEL WITH SWORDS WAS THE FIRST IN ARGENTINA FOR TEN YEARS. IT WAS FOUGHT AT A COUNTRY ESTATE NEAR BUENOS AIRES.
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