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...A.A.A. recently surfaced as a major terrorist force. Three weeks ago, a letter was sent to Buenos Aires newspapers containing a list of 17 prominent Argentines. Beside five of the names were tiny crosses; those five had already been executed. The remaining twelve, including former President Héctor Campora, ex-Deputy Leonardo Bettanin and former Education Minister Jorge Taiana, were A.A.A. targets. "Now five are down, and the leftists will keep falling no matter where they are," said the clumsily worded communique. Among those since slain by the A.A.A. was Silvio Frondizi, brother of former President Arturo Frondizi...
...During a 28-day visit to Buenos Aires, Perón attracted huge crowds of cheering supporters to his suburban villa. He also tested his strength by conferring with leaders throughout the Argentine political spectrum. As he headed back to Madrid, he endorsed the candidacy of former Dentist Hector Campora, who described himself as Peron's "obsequious servant." Last March, Campora won the election handily, and the stage was set for Perón to strut again...
Hardly anyone in Argentina expected that the transition from the military junta of General Alejandro Lanusse to the newly elected civilian government of Peronista President-elect Hector Campora would be peaceful. Last week trouble came, although not, perhaps, in a manner that many had expected. On a busy Buenos Aires street, an urban guerrilla from a Trotskyite group called the People's Revolutionary Army shot and killed Rear Admiral Hermes Quijada, former chief of the Armed Forces Joint General Staff...
Lanusse immediately declared a state of emergency and imposed martial law on Buenos Aires and Argentina's five most populous provinces. He also insisted that Campora, who had been conferring with Juan Peron in Madrid about the new government that is to take office May 25, return home to deal with "the new crimes." Campora, who hitherto had studiously ignored the military's recommendations and instructions, could not refuse this time. "I shall return on the first plane," he cabled Lanusse...
Last week, Campora conferred with members of the junta in his Buenos Aires apartment. Lanusse agreed to back down on a demand that Campora categorically censure the guerrillas. Campora, on his part, recognized the junta's right to combat terrorists as it sees fit until his inauguration, when martial law will be replaced by less stringent measures. The President-elect had good reason to compromise. If the terrorism were to continue, the generals would presumably have a strong excuse for trying to postpone, or even prevent, his assumption of power...