Word: campora
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kidnapers are little better than bandits, but many of them claim to be acting either for socialism or for Peronism. President-elect Hector Campora, who was voted into power last month as the representative of the exiled Juan Peron, has asked the guerrillas to "grant us a truce" until after his government is installed May 25. There is little sign of that happening...
Last week Argentina's present military government struck back, sending out some 100,000 troops to sweep Buenos Aires in a search for guerrillas. Campora's promise to release jailed guerrillas who will work for "national liberation" brought a stinging rebuke from General Elbio Anaya, the Second Army Corps commander whose predecessor was gunned down by guerrillas. The army, said Anaya, will not permit amnesty for "vulgar, unscrupulous assassins" under any circumstances...
More irksome to Lanusse than Perón's insults was a campaign slogan -"Campora in government, Perón in power"-being used by supporters of Hector Campora, the Peronista candidate for President. The government argued that the slogan violated the constitution, which states that the people do not govern except through elected representatives. On that ground, the junta filed suit in the National Electoral Court demanding that Peron's Justicialist Liberation Front, which had been given a good chance to win the election, be dissolved. If that happens, Peron will be left without a legal means...
...decision to decline the candidacy and promised to launch a legal appeal action to place his name on the March ticket. At week's end, though, the Front suddenly reversed field and picked a top Perónista henchman, a sometime dentist named Hector Campora, 63, as its candidate. Technically, Campora also is ineligible for the presidency under the rules of the Lanusse edict, since he spent several days in Madrid during the fall visiting...
...unite the civilian opposition to Argentina's military government, and then run for the presidency in the elections scheduled for March 11? Perón was typically Delphic, carefully sidestepping the question at a press conference that he held on Saturday. But a top henchman, Hector Campora, has declared that Perón is an "irreversible candidate...