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Dividend Movement. The slaughter at the airport, cabled TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath, rose from the fact that "in important respects Argentina today resembles Germany just before Hitler. It has been ravaged by an inflation that has impoverished the workers and terrified the middle class. Fascists and Marxists have begun fighting in the streets. Millions of Argentines looked to the return of Perón for both change and national unity, but the battle near Ezeiza Airport shows that the Peronist movement is as deeply divided as Argentina itself...
Despite the ugly violence that marred his homecoming, despite the rumors that he himself was in failing health, Perón now appears to be at a peak of political power. Just last November, when he first returned briefly to Argentina from his refuge in Spain, he was snubbed by then President General Alejandro Lanusse, who used armed troops to keep crowds from greeting him at Ezeiza Airport. Disqualified from running for the presidency himself, Perón negotiated with politicians on both the left and the right, gathering the widest possible support for his puppet candidate, Héctor...
...about Latin leaders spending huge sums on weapons and then seeking aid to feed their peoples. In 1968 Congress voted against further sales unless the President decided that they were important to the security of the United States. In announcing Nixon's waiver to permit sales to Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela, the Administration put no emphasis on "security" interests. Rogers said that the policy of "paternalism" had not worked...
...supposed to buy surplus remodeled F-5Es. Admittedly they are cheaper than the French Mirage [$1.6 million each, compared with $2.2 million for the Mirage], but this is just a hooker to sell expensive spare parts later." In fact, France has already sold more than 500 Mirages to Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela...
...executives unless the company would agree to "donate" $500,000 to a children's hospital and other institutions, and increase the wages of its Argentine employees by 100%. At week's end, Otis had not decided whether to bow to the threat, as did Ford of Argentina (TIME, June 4). The company did, however, evacuate all its executives and their families. The mood of those remaining behind in Argentina's international community was grim. Said one American businessman: "We've been getting threatening calls for months. Now we're listening to them...