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Sitting in Buenos Aires' Villa de Voto jail, Labor Leader Cipriano Reyes (rhymes with Asia's) might have been excused for wondering just what had hit him. Most publicized catch in the abortive assassination plot against President Perón (TIME, Oct. 4), he was scheduled for trial next month with eleven other defendants. Meanwhile he was held in solitary; only his wife and daughter could visit his cell...
...been jailed in B.A. on Peronistas' charges that he had fomented a bank strike in Argentina's capital; the new role assigned to him seemed to knowing Argentines to fit even more awkwardly. The "plotters" rounded up in Buenos Aires were an oddly assorted group: Cipriano Reyes, a former Peronista labor leader now in the opposition, three priests, a half-blind doctor, two women, a handful of complete unknowns...
...Philippines the reception was different. Businessmen there were cool to what Japan had to offer, and politicians, sensing the public hostility, were cooler. Said Philippine Congressman Cipriano Primicias: "MacArthur is being deceived ... I would not lift a finger to help put Japan again in a position to menace the peace and security of the Far East...
...army's apparent vigor surprised the wildly cheering crowds and the Communists. Said Defense Minister Cipriano Facchinetti: "Rehabilitation of our armed forces has been achieved silently but efficiently in the past few months." Interior Minister Mario Scelba announced that the government had 330,000 men under arms, including a special shock force of 150,000 ready to take on the Communists if they tried to make trouble on election day. When the parade reached the end of the Via dell Impero, it suddenly swung left and marched through the Via delle Botteghe Oscure, where Communist headquarters are located. From...
...Condemned to death after being returned from France were Cipriano Rivas Cherif, brilliant dramatist, lawyer, diplomat; Julián Zugazagoitia, Basque firebrand, deputy, editor, historian, Minister of the Interior in the last Republican Government; Antonio Cruz Salido, onetime Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party; Carlos Montilla y Escudero, onetime Director of Spanish Railways, Loyalist Counselor in Havana; Miguel Salvador y Carreras, famed music critic, co-founder of the Madrid Philharmonic Society, Loyalist Chargé d'Affaires in Copenhagen. Over their bodies, the Spain of Franco aspires to a "prominent place over the ruins of Europe...