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...damp homecoming two weeks ago after 17 years in exile, the onetime Argentine dictator, now 77, last week was adroitly bartering among the country's multitudinous political parties and keeping everyone guessing about his intentions. Would he find a way to unite the civilian opposition to Argentina's military government, and then run for the presidency in the elections scheduled for March 11? Perón was typically Delphic, carefully sidestepping the question at a press conference that he held on Saturday. But a top henchman, Hector Campora, has declared that Perón is an "irreversible candidate...
DURING a political rally in Argentina in 1954, one of Juan Domingo Perón's followers questioned the dictator about his health. Before Perón could reply, a zealous aide shouted, "We'll have Perón for a hundred years!" Added el Líder himself: "You'll have Perón for five thousand years, for even though I disappear, my doctrine will continue...
...also a personality cult-in fact, a split-personality cult-built around the twin legends of the deposed dictator and his dead second wife Eva, whom the Argentine descamisados (shirtless ones) have enshrined as a secular saint. "Perón y Evita," are an enduring political force in Argentina. Walls in Buenos Aires are plastered with fresh posters of a sleek and inspiring Evita Perón, "flag bearer of the workers...
...security; he also instituted the eight-hour day for farm laborers. Perón nationalized the British-owned Argentine railroads, retired the entire foreign debt, and by 1947 boasted a fivefold increase in industrial production during his regime. Fraudulent bookkeeping concealed the fact that his spending programs had driven Argentina to the verge of bankruptcy...
...chief beneficiary of this ferment is the U.S. wine industry, the world's sixth-largest producer (behind Italy, France, the Soviet Union, Spain and Argentina). Long considered to be pale imitations of their European cousins, American wines are rapidly gaining in quality and respect. Imports continue to rise, but more than 88% of all wine sold in the U.S. is homegrown. This year 43 new wineries have been opened. Thriving vineyards have grown up in some unlikely places: Maryland, Washington, Oregon, Illinois and Georgia. New York State produces one of every eleven bottles of wine made...