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...hair a stately white, his face deeply lined, Illia personifies almost everything that Argentina craves and lacks -maturity and stability. Ever since the military ousted President Arturo Frondizi in March 1962, the rich land of grain and beef has drifted from crisis to crisis and from military faction to military faction, amid needless inflation, trade deficits and an eroding peso. Just before last month's twice-delayed popular elections finally came up, there were strong fears that the military would annul the result to prevent followers of the exiled Dictator Juan Perón from returning to power through...
Surprises All Around. That was stretching it some. Violence and confusion have been the country's unhappy lot ever since the military toppled Arturo Frondizi 16 months ago and installed Puppet President José Maria Guido in his place. As the once prosperous land of grain and meat fell into economic chaos (the cost of living soared 50% last year), the military promised constitutional elections and a return to democracy. But the soldiers could not agree on when to hold elections, or how much democracy to allow the 3,000,000 followers of exiled Dictator Juan...
...Peronistas tried to mollify the military by agreeing to form a popular front with Frondizi's Intransigent Radical party. At the last minute, the front found most of its choices for the electoral college disqualified by the army. From his exile in Madrid, Perón told his followers that since they were legally required to vote, they should cast blank ballots; under house arrest in the Argentine mountain resort town of Bariloche, Frondizi did the same. Together, they were supposed to control 40% of the voters...
...troops at polls around the country on election day. But, to the surprise of most everybody, there were no incidents-and nothing like 40% blank ballots. Weary of living in political limbo and anxious to participate again in the democratic process, many regarded as Peronistas or followers of Frondizi cast their ballots for other candidates. Of some 10 million votes, only 17% were blank. Dr. Arturo Illía, whose middle-reading party calls itself the People's Radicals, wound up with 27% of the total, worth 169 electoral votes. Dr. Oscar Alende, leading an anti-Frondizi wing...
...spectacular methods, which in principle I abhor." During the campaign he struck a nationalistic note by promising an "investigation" of what the International Monetary Fund has been doing "for and to" Argentina. He also promised to "an nul" the controversial oil contracts be tween foreign oilmen and the old Frondizi government. "But no one need be alarmed by this," he said. "Justice will be recognized, and if convenient to Argentina, they will be renegotiated." Illía plans to end the current state of siege, "return the armed services to their profession," create a national economic council for planning...