Arturo Frondizi; Former President of Argentina

Arturo Frondizi, 86, president of Argentina from 1958 until 1962. Frondizi, who formed a resistance movement as a student at the University of Buenos Aires and was briefly imprisoned, became a lawyer and later taught at the Buenos Aires university. He began his political career with the Radical Civic Union, Argentina’s 100-year-old centrist party, where he became a deputy. He was elected president but was toppled by a military coup four years later. He fell into disfavor with the military after he tried unsuccessfully to broker the differences between Cuban President Fidel Castro and President John F. Kennedy. He once led the Movement for Integration and Development, which favored state protection for industrialization, but retired from politics about 15 years ago because of ill health. In Buenos Aires on Tuesday of a heart attack.