Word: frondizi
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...more unlikely political leader would be difficult to imagine. Tall, spare, bespectacled, Frondizi lacks the charisma of power; he has none of Fidel Castro's flamboyant oratory, transmits none of Ja-nio Quadros' messianic zeal. Yet in office he was a superb politician of maneuver-good at the back-room deal, the clever compromise that resolved disputes but settled no issues. In his four years as President, he had miraculously survived 35 major and innumerable minor crises. Against his countrymen's express wishes, he imposed austerity on Argentina as the only way to right the foundering economy...
...false prosperity that inevitably ended in bankruptcy, but the masses gave him their devotion and have accepted no leader since. After his downfall, Per&243;n's name was forbidden on the ballot. Four years ago, to get elected, Frondizi in his usual adroit way courted the support of the outlawed Per&243;nistas. In power, he tried to assimilate the Per&243;nistas into the normal political life of the nation in a way that made Argentina's military leaders nervous. This year Frondizi managed to convince the military that the Per&243;nistas would...
...wrong Frondizi was became clear last week with the first election returns. With 86 congressional seats and 14 provincial governorships at stake, the Per&243;nistas won 44 seats and 9 provinces, plus Jujuy, where they ran in alliance with the Christian Democratic Party (see map). Actually, Per&243;nistas got only 35% of the vote, but their opponents were split. In the balloting, Frondizi's own Intransigent Radical Party polled 540,000 more votes than during the last national election in 1960. Yet so great was the Per&243;nista landslide that Frondizi's party lost...
...shock. Having once ousted Old Soldier Per&243;n, and now deeply fearful of their ex-commander's vengeance and his irresponsibility, they were determined to forestall any Per&243;nista comeback. Through Navy Secretary Admiral Gaston Clement, some of the officers demanded the immediate resignation of Frondizi and his replacement with a military junta. But cooler heads, mostly in the army and air force, proposed a compromise: Frondizi could stay, but with his power sharply curtailed...
...height of the crisis, the U.S. clearly showed its support of Frondizi. Ambassador Robert McClintock, who has been in similar hot spots before, and was ambassador in Lebanon in 1958 when the embattled government of President Camille Chamoun called on U.S. Marines, made a pointed visit to Frondizi. As the wires hummed between Buenos Aires and Washington, McClintock let it be known that Argentina could expect no aid from the U.S. if the military imposed a new dictatorship on Argentina. "The objective," as one State Department officer put it, "is to preserve even the thinnest skin over this skeleton...