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Isabelita has prudently remained silent on her own political opinions and ambitions, limiting herself to loyal praise of "mi general." Her foes fear she will use the vice presidency to consolidate and expand her power. The major stumbling blocks are the left-leaning Peronist youth, who are wary of her rightist views, and the military. They accepted her candidacy only after reaching a "gentlemen's agreement" with Peron...
...Diego, for example, the city under Republican Mayor Pete Wilson is using its zoning powers to restrict the amount of housing construction around the city's edges and to expand building in the downtown areas, where it is really needed...
Arrayed within the Left against the Activists are the Legalists, who are strong in nations that have achieved political democracy. Revolution, they argue, will certainly be a chaotic upheaval, but it need not include a campaign of violence orchestrated by socialists. Political democracy can be the tool to expand economic and social democracy peacefully, attracting growing support from the middle classes and isolating the old rulers so that violent resistance is obviously futile...
...Activist solution has terrible implications. Revolutionaries who wish to end violence must resort to it, socialists who fight to expand democracy to the economic and social sphere must limit it. Freedom fighters in Africa who want to end oppression must kill oppressed Portuguese peasant-soldiers. Vietnamese revolutionaries who seek an independent Vietnam make war against some of their own countrymen. Leon Trotsky, a warm and humane man, raced around in his special train in the Soviet Civil War and ordered deserters from the Red Army shot...
John T. Bethell '54, editor of the Magazine, said last week that he would like to expand the publication's readership "beyond the core of Harvard graduates...