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...Overboard. To pave the way. Perón last week employed a familiar technique: lightening ship by throwing overboard once useful cronies.* Out went the two front men of his anti-church campaign: Minister of Interior Angel Gabriel Borlenghi (who departed in haste to Uruguay) and Minister of Education Armando Méndez San Martin. To replace them he swore in ("by God, the Fatherland and the Holy Gospels") a pair of party hacks: Oscar Edmundo Albrieu, 40, as Interior Minister, and Francisco Marcos Anglada, 38, as Education Minister. Both were moderate enough to represent a concession to the church...
...boxed in the No. 1 general, that the revolt had cost Perón some of his power. But if the Cabinet included Perón's chosen cronies-Minister of Education Mendez San Martin, a spark plug of the anti-church campaign; Minister of Interior Angel Gabriel Borlenghi, the old Cabinet's boss policeman; and Minister of Technical Affairs Raul Mende, top political hatchetman-then Perón would be announcing to the world that he was firmly and defiantly back in full control...
Announced Interior Minister Angel Gabriel Borlenghi: "The prelates had erred in assuming that a procession could be held on Saturday after permission had been given for Corpus Christi Day proper." On Saturday, the Peronista press and radio announced that the ceremonies had been called off. The government drastically slowed down service on streetcar, bus and subway lines leading toward the Plaza de Mayo, but the Catholics came anyway, some of them walking miles from their homes in the suburbs...
...intervened an entire province for seven years, and Argentines assumed that he must have urgent reasons for the crackdown. According to stories floating about Buenos Aires, Perónista officials in the three provinces had gone in heavily for nepotism and graft, but last week Minister Borlenghi tried to dispel such unpleasant talk. "I want to make it clear," he said, "that none of the charges have to do with the honesty of the governments intervened." The trouble, Borlenghi explained in phrases worthy of authoritarian doubletalk, was that the three provincial governments showed "a lack of interest in public service...
...closed-door meeting with provincial governors last month, spokesmen for the Perónista associations rapped several provincial officials for failing to pay "people's organizations" due heed. Aware that more than three provincial governments took verbal stonings at the meeting, newsmen asked Minister Borlenghi last week whether there would be more intervening in the near future. Replied Borlenghi evasively, but no doubt accurately: "The federal government is keeping close watch...