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...first election in a decade, Raúl Alfonsin routs the Peronists...
...returns streamed in, neither candidate could quite believe what was happening. Raúl Alfonsin, refreshed by a barbecue lunch and a three-hour siesta, heard the results at the home of a wealthy supporter in a Buenos Aires suburb. "Let's wait, let's wait," he cautioned excited aides. At his party headquarters downtown, Italo Luder sat forlornly in his office, shaking his head in disbelief. Luder's supporters, expecting a night of partying, instead drifted quietly out of the building. Finally, at 5:45 a.m., the perplexed Luder emerged from his office, not to concede...
...technical point, for by then the election had become a romp. When the votes were tallied, Alfonsin, 56, and his center-left Radical Civic Union party had outpolled Luder and the Peronists, 52% to 40%. Of the 15.2 million votes cast, the Radicals won 7.7 million, the Peronists 6 million. Though the new President faces a horizon of uncertainty, the results marked a fresh chapter in Argentine history. For the first time since it was founded by Juan Domingo Perón 37 years ago, the Peronist party has lost a free national election. Alfonsin succeeded in doing what...
...junta is apparently becoming more desperate. The law has been constructed so that the courts cannot question its provisions and an incoming civilian government cannot reverse the blanket amnesty it grants. Nonetheless, most election candidates rejected the law. Italo Luder of the Peronists and Raul Alfonsin of the Radicals confidently promised to repeal it, if elected. Said Argentine Novelist Ernesto Sabato: "I think that this is the only case in the history of international law in which the guilty dictate a law exonerating themselves...