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...just before one of the military's periodic withdrawals from power, Alfonsin challenged the aging party war horse, Ricardo Balbin, for the Radical presidential nomination. Alfonsin was intent on proving that voters could be lured away from their rote support of Peronismo. Said he: "It is intolerable that there should be any authoritarian component in a popular movement." He lost, but gained a name for himself in party ranks. When the Radicals held their nominating convention last July following the junta's vow to hold national elections, he was ready...
...Chile in the month of August, Rauch provided extensive background material on the present crisis. In one of his files, Rauch reported: "The only thing amusing about Eisendrath's predicament is what some other newsmen made of it. One of them asked Perdn's rival, Ricardo Balbin, whether he felt the U.S. was responsible for the coup. 'After all, a special correspondent for TIME went to Santiago just hours before Allende's downfall,' the journalist explained, 'and doesn't that prove...
...Julius Balbin, former professor of French and Russian at the New York Maritime Academy and winner of the Fine Arts Prize of the Universal Esperanto Association will address the Northeastern Esperanto Conference in the Lamont Forum Room at 2:40 p.m. Sunday...
After Perón's fall. Frondizi expertly maneuvered Balbin out of the Radical leadership. He won financing from industrialists by promising high tariffs; he won support from the Catholic Church by spurning the Radicals' advocacy of legalized divorce; he won Socialist and Communist approval by promises to expand the nationalization of oil, steel, rail, mining, telephone and power. He sharply attacked General Pedro Aramburu's provisional government, which gave him his chance to run. "Where do you stand?" he was asked once as he left Aramburu's office. "Just across the street." answered Frondizi...
...Voters. Most of all. Frondizi did not refer to his record as a Perón fighter, promised to bring Peronistas back into Argentina's political life. That may have cleared the way for his endorsement by Peron. Balbin, tagged as the traditionally suspected "official" candidate, and running on the ticket of a Radical splinter party, could not match the competition...