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...Americans working for agricultural reform were murdered one night 21 months ago. Even as paint and plaster were being applied, there were complaints of another cover-up in what has come to be known as the "agreform murders." On grounds of insufficient evidence, Salvadoran Judge Héctor Enrique Jiménez Zaldivar on Oct. 1 released an army officer accused of ordering the murders. Said a U.S. embassy statement: "We are dismayed and incredulous...
...bloodless "pocket rebellion" by the air force began during the week be fore Christmas, when Brigadier General Héctor Luis Fautario, the air force commander, arrived at one of Buenos Aires' airports to fly to Córdoba. Fautario, an unpopular general unswervingly loyal to President Perón, was detained by high-ranking fellow officers, who thereupon declared a rebellion. Military leaders, apparently sharing the general dislike of Fautario, quickly acceded to one of the rebels' demands and dismissed him. But Fautario's successor, Brigadier General Orlando Ramon Agosti, was unsympathetic to the rebels...
...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...
...ominous rumors had been circulating throughout Argentina: President Héctor Cámpora and his Cabinet would resign, and former Dictator Juan Perón would be in position to assume the presidency. At precisely 10:30 a.m. last Friday, the rumors became reality. Cámpora appeared on nationwide television and radio to announce "the mandate which General Perón gave us, we now return to him, because he is the leader of this great national, popular, Christian and revolutionary movement...
...have almost no place for passions," declared Argentine President Héctor Cámpora in a nation-wide television address last week. That, as it turned out, was a gross overstatement...