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...anticlimactic end to what Perón had hoped would be a return to power after twelve years of exile in Madrid. He had entered Argentina 28 days earlier like a returning folk hero. He exited like a rejected ward heeler, frustrated by the refusal of Argentina's current strongman, Alejandro Lanusse, to rescind an edict requiring presidential candidates to have been in Argentina on Aug. 25 (Lanusse announced last week that he will not be a candidate either). Perón had also been hurt by defections within his own Justicialist Front. Four parties dropped out amidst arguments...
...leavetaking was a shabby affair. The streets around his suburban Buenos Aires home were virtually deserted as his motorcade of 20 cars pulled out for Ezeiza Airport. Instead of the tens of thousands who were turned back by troops ringing the airport when el lider returned to Argentina, less than 200 were on hand for his departure...
...huddled in the back seat of his car with his wife Isabelita while a document announcing his noncandidacy was distributed. When he was ready to leave, there was no sleek, chartered Alitalia jetliner like the one that had brought him to Argentina. This time he was a common commercial passenger on a seedy Electra C of Lineas Aereas Paraguayas...
Alejandro Lanusse, Argentina's military strongman, who had been doing his best to ignore Perón, is now close to war with el Lider's rambunctious followers. Speaking to reporters in the city of Bahía Blanca last week, Lanusse denied that a Peronist youth leader had been jailed in the rioting, but he made it clear that he thought the young man should have been locked up. "Patience has a limit," he warned. "At any moment we can show that we do not carry weapons as ornaments." As for Perón: "That gentleman...
...noticed clause in the government's declaration-stipulating that a presidential candidate must not have been out of the country for more than 15 days between Aug. 25 and the March elections-will rule out some top Peronist candidates. Many of them spent at least a month outside Argentina this year, conferring with Perón while he was in exile in Madrid...