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...message from Madrid to Buenos Aires sounded confident enough: "I have irrevocably decided to return in the year 1964." Juan Domingo Perón, 69, Argentina's exiled dictator, has been talking about returning for nearly ten years, but never before had he set a definite time limit or made such extensive plans...
According to Perón's plan, Operación Retorno will take him before Dec. 31 to either Paraguay or Uruguay, where he will wait while an emissary goes on to Buenos Aires to announce the imminent return of El Líder. Then if Argentina's 3,000,000 Peronistas react as Perón hopes they will, the old dictator will move on to Buenos Aires and demand immediate presidential elections, which he reckons he would easily win. Should serious opposition develop, Perón says: "Sometimes in history a civil war has been...
Most important, President Illia has said that "Perón's return is up to Perón." Devious Scheme? Still, Perón faces tremendous opposition. Alarmed by the reports of Perón's preparations, Argentina's chief of naval operations, Rear Admiral Benigno Varela, last week declared: "The navy will not permit El Retorno under any circumstances." Anti-Perón civilians have organized a commando band to storm the airport or harbor if Perón tries to land...
...share than a decade ago. In an effort to bring about a genuine common market, the LAFTA delegates at Bogota will consider several proposals. One plan would trim all tariffs by 10% a year; a more popular proposal calls for 12% cuts by LAFTA's most advanced members (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico), ranging down to only 4% reductions by its least developed countries (Paraguay and Ecuador). Even with that, the less developed countries fear that their infant industries would be wiped out by a flood of imports from the more advanced nations, who then would dominate LAFTA...
...Them & Them Alone." Illia, of course, was badly embarrassed (Cordoba is his home town), and once again Argentina was shown to be a sorely divided nation lacking leadership. But De Gaulle was on the spot too, and there was no satisfactory way for him to get off it. Any wave to the Peronista crowd would be interpreted as support of anti-government forces, and he had no desire to make a formal anti-Perón statement. He did the best he could under the circumstances, retreated into the icy aloofness he has been striving to avoid. "The matter concerns...