Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under her husband and is also Minister of Social Welfare. Moments later she reaffirmed Perón's economic policy, having earlier retained José Gelbard as Economics Minister. The next day she appeared at Buenos Aires' cathedral for a Te Deum commemorating the 158th anniversary of Argentina's independence. As she appeared in the doorway, carrying the presidential baton and wearing a theatrical black cape, the crowd spontaneously cheered...
...become the focus of her countrymen's attention. It was she who appeared on television to reveal the seriousness of her husband's illness. It was she who, choking back tears, announced that he had died. And it was again she?dressed in black unadorned with jewelry?who symbolized Argentina's sorrow. The icy smile, the tightly pulled-back hair dyed dark blonde and the slightly strident voice of Maria Estela ("Isabelita") Martinez de Perón, 43, last week dominated the thoughts of Argentines nearly as much as did the death of her husband Juan Per?...
Elected Argentine Vice President last September (at Perón's insistence), Isabelita constitutionally succeeded her husband as president, thus becoming the first woman chief of state in the history of Argentina and the Americas. Although her education never progressed beyond high school, she is not without political experience. During Perón's exile in Spain, she twice returned alone to Argentina to end squabbles among the Peronistas. She acted as Perón's intermediary with the endless stream of supporters who visited him in Spain, and even represented him in China, where she had talks with both Chairman...
...many Argentines still feel uncomfortable with Isabelita as La Presidenta. They distrust a woman in such a high position and question her background. Born in Argentina's impoverished La Rioja province, the daughter of a bank executive, she left home in her 20s to join a troupe of traveling folk dancers. In 1956, after finishing a performance in a Panama City cabaret, she was introduced to the exiled Per?...
Died. Juan Domingo Perón, 78, President of Argentina (see THE WORLD...