Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back-with his third wife Isabel at his side, trying to fill the role of the revered Eva-because the people of Argentina want him back. He is back -seeking to formalize his power by running for President this month-also because the military that ousted him finally let him back. Most of all, Perón is back because Argentina is in a state of chaos, racked by terrorism and factional clashes that threaten to engulf it in civil war. Both the masses and the military look to him in desperation. He seems to them to be the only...
...faced Perón. But it is the future that will determine his ultimate place in Argentine history-and, more crucially, the destiny of the country itself. If he fails his second chance, Perón will be worse off than he was after his first, and so will Argentina. In short, the man and the country are on the same spot, their destinies and fortunes inextricably entwined...
Already the bitter division has tarnished the old dictator's second coming. On the very day he returned, less than three months ago, to live again in Argentina, the factions turned a mammoth welcoming party into a mutual massacre. More than 100 people died and hundreds more were injured as rightist and leftist elements raked each other with gunfire in a huge meadow near Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport...
...posters appeared throughout Argentina hailing Isabelita as "the perfect Peronista" and "Evita's successor," the lady herself tried to look and act like "the little Madonna," as Eva was called. She has dyed her chestnut hair blonde like Evita's, she wears a silver mink coat like Evita's, she is making good-will tours like Evita's. But when Isabel accepted the vice-presidential nomination, an honor that Eva had declined in 1951, angry Peronistas began tearing out the eyes on her posters...
...savior of Argentina this time round, he must first do a better job than he has to date of pacifying the Peronistas. It looms as a major undertaking. Yet it is small compared with the task of inspiring Argentines as a people to unite in a common, selfless cause. Historically, Argentina has been victimized by selfishness, on the part of both its leaders and its people. "There is no community in Argentina," laments H. A. Murena, a noted Argentine novelist. "We do not form a body, though we may form a conglomeration. Instead of stability, Argentina has rancorous, factious chaos...