Word: domingos
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...bored cluster of newsmen posted outside his lavish villa in suburban Madrid, it looked like any other day in the life of Juan Domingo Perón. There had been the usual trickle of callers in the afternoon and evening. At 8 p.m. the exiled dictator went to dinner with Isabelita, his pretty young wife, a Spanish police officer assigned to guard him. and a few Peronista visitors from Argentina. Later, as always, Perón went upstairs to watch television, which invariably occupies him until Spain's only channel goes off the air at 12:30 a.m. Instead...
...message from Madrid to Buenos Aires sounded confident enough: "I have irrevocably decided to return in the year 1964." Juan Domingo Perón, 69, Argentina's exiled dictator, has been talking about returning for nearly ten years, but never before had he set a definite time limit or made such extensive plans...
...almost a decade, 3,000,000 of Argentina's 21 million people have lived outside the country's normal political life. They are the Peronistas, long loyal to ex-Dictator Juan Domingo Peron, 69, and his promise to return to Argentina leading another revolution. Last week 17 Peronista leaders were back in Buenos Aires after a five-day conference with El Lider in Madrid. As always, Peron vowed to return. But not as a revolutionary this time. The aging strongman now sees himself as conciliator, who would stay only long enough-possibly two or three months-to help...
...leaders in the Dominican Republic remained quiet. Then, Father Jean-Baptiste Georges, a Roman Catholic priest who once served as Haiti's Education Minister, and Pierre L. Rigaud, head of Haiti's old liberal National Democratic Union, called a press conference in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo. The exile force, they announced, was part of the Haitian Revolutionary Armed Forces, and was delivering arms to a resistance group already in Haiti. Where they were getting weapons and money, and where they were training, Rigaud and Father Georges would not say. But the Dominican government had nothing...
...place, they set up what they considered a reliably docile civilian triumvirate too weak to do any harm-or any good. But when the junta went through its inevitable first shake-up last December, out went one of its members and in stepped Donald Reid Cabral, 40, a Santo Domingo auto dealer and the frail (5 ft. 6 in., 132 Ibs.) but strong-willed son of a Scots banker. Since then, Reid has clearly become more equal than the others in the triumvirate. This week, as military men complained to Reid about still another member of the equal trio...