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Thus history in troubled Argentina came full circle. Less than a month after his return from 18 years of enforced exile abroad, the way had been prepared for Juan Domingo Perón officially to take total command in Argentina...
...stage was set for the biggest welcoming party in South American history. Ex-Dictator Juan Domingo Perón, now 77, was coming home, and for the better part of a week the faithful descamisados (shirtless ones) streamed toward the huge meadow near Buenos Aires' Ezeiza International Airport. They numbered in the millions, perhaps one. perhaps three-nobody could count how many. The orchestra and chorus of Buenos Aires' Colón Opera House were on hand to sing Peronist hymns; kites bearing Perón's image flew overhead, and from the massive crowd came...
...Republic, who offered themselves up in the cause of world peace and to demonstrate the "power of mind over matter." French-born Mystic Patricio Tamao, 33, who is the founder of his own philosophy, Tamaoism, was the first on the cross, which was on the patio of a Santo Domingo hotel. Tamao, who planned to stay on the cross at least 48 hours, lasted half that long-19 hours with the cross in a horizontal position, 6½ upright. When doctors advised him that anything further would endanger his life, he yielded his place to his petite wife Maritza...
...view of the situation reigning in the country, I feel obliged to decline the offer of the front." With that terse statement, Juan Domingo Perón last week renounced the presidential candidacy offered him by the Justicialist Liberation Front, a coalition of his supporters. Minutes later he boarded a plane for Paraguay, the country that had given him political asylum following his ouster in a coup 17 years...
DURING a political rally in Argentina in 1954, one of Juan Domingo Perón's followers questioned the dictator about his health. Before Perón could reply, a zealous aide shouted, "We'll have Perón for a hundred years!" Added el Líder himself: "You'll have Perón for five thousand years, for even though I disappear, my doctrine will continue...