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Careful observers of Juan Perón's inauguration ceremonies in Buenos Aires' ornate Government House last month would have seen clues to the way that the 78-year-old caudillo planned to run Argentina. For one thing, Perón wore his general's uniform for the first time since he was stripped of his rank 18 years ago. For another, former President Hector Cámpora was not even invited to Government House...
...moved quickly and adroitly to consolidate his relations with Argentina's generals. The separate commands of the armed forces were abolished shortly before the inaugural. Perón now is in direct command of the entire military, a position that should allow him to suppress any potential revolt before it gets very far. He also launched "Operation Dorrego," a flood-relief project in which army units worked with Peronist youth to reclaim lands ruined by disastrous floods earlier this year. Significantly, a "provisional council" has been set up and is charged with "ideological purification" of the Justicialist Party. What...
...world-wide struggle. Authoritarian nationalism, on the other hand, if it looks beyond its own borders at all, looks for territorial gain. Juan Peron in Argentian and Gamal Nassar in Egypt may oppose American and European domination over their nations, but they oppose it in the name of Argentina or Egypt and not in the name of international brotherhood. Authoritarian nationalist regimes, lacking a coherent view of the world and their tnterdependent place in it, generally fail to develop their nations industrially. They find surviving on charisma alone difficult. As a distorted and useless response to imperial domination, authoritarian nationalism...
Romer's research in vertebrate paleontology took him from South Africa to western Argentina to the Permian red-beds of Texas in search of amphibian and reptile fossils...
...sense. "In principle," his mother told him, "I do not respect the law." When his brother was called up by the Spanish army, Casals's mother told him: "You do not have to kill anybody, and nobody has to kill you. Go away...Leave the country." He went to Argentina...