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...seven weeks off) shouted to 50,000 people on a Buenos Aires street corner: "The Argentine man is no longer intimidated. Perón is no longer dictator." A few weeks ago an Argentine would have been arrested for saying that kind of thing in public. In fact, Ricardo Balbin, the man who said it last week, already faced arrest on 19 different charges of disrespect for the President...
...political winds that blow across the Argentine pampas have veered somewhat. Balbin's audience last week was the best Radical turnout in years. Considering the obstacles put in the way, the crowd of 50,000 was rather more impressive than the estimated 250,000 who were quite literally hauled in for last month's widely touted rally to launch a Perón & Perón ticket. The Radicals' meeting received not a word of advance notice from press or radio. Police banished the rally to the outlying Constitution Plaza. Two nearby subway stations were shut down...
...months Ricardo Balbin, leader of the Radical opposition, had sat in jail for calling the President a "dictator" and a "liar" in a campaign speech (TIME, May 1, Dec. 11). During that time, criticism of such harsh and humorless punishment for a political opponent had risen sharply both at home and abroad. Balbin, more popular than ever before, shouted from his cell: "I have no regrets. I am less a prisoner than those on the outside...
Last week President Peron ordered a pardon for Balbin because "a definitive sentence [had] not yet been pronounced" on him. With these bland words, Peron disarmed his critics. Balbin went to his home. But the law of desacato (disrespect for public officials), under which Balbin had been sent to jail, remained very much in effect...
...Prisoner Balbin was not cowed. Said he: "I have no regrets. I would say what I said again. I am less a prisoner than those on the outside...