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...Defense Secretary? What about the army's warnings to the President? The Peróns had obviously come to terms with the military brass. But what were the terms? Even the best-informed porteños did not know. But there were some guesses. Among the best: 1) Evita would gradually retire from public life; and 2) Perón would follow a more hard-boiled attitude toward labor...
...tough labor policy showed itself last week in the northwestern Province of Tucumán, where the government set out to break a strike of sugar workers as it had previously broken strikes by printers and bakers. But if Evita was being retired, the process was so gradual as to defy detection. This week, she and her husband were to be co-starred in another of their super-colossal productions with a cast of thousands-descamisados and the army-celebrating the new constitution...
After several jittery weeks, Juan and Eva Perón seemed more like their old selves again. In fact, they were operating so smoothly last week that it was hard to believe that only three weeks ago Peron was wobbling under army pressure while Evita was in danger of being eased out of public life...
...losing money at the rate of $100 million a year) were now in the black. The boss of the railway unions rose to shout: "If at any time it becomes necessary, the workers will rise and fight in the streets in defense of General Perón and Comrade Evita...
Unwanted Workers. A few days before that, Comrade Evita broke the printers' strike that had kept the capital without newspapers for three weeks. This was accomplished by importing 58 printers from the provinces. She personally handed each man $210, promised $20 a day and free meals at the fancy midtown El Ciervo restaurant, then packed all of them off to plants where they were needed most. One by one, the newspapers reappeared. By week's end the strikers were back at work -except for 40%, who had lost their jobs in the shuffle...