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Last week's visit to the University of Iowa was a case in point. During the day the students donned leotards and crowded round for master classes conducted by Ailey Regulars Estelle Spurlock and Hector Mercado. At night the youngsters and other Iowa City dance devotees, attired in everything from sweatshirts to evening gowns and sneakers to wingtips, poured into Hancher Auditorium to see such Ailey staples as Flowers (a rock piece based on the life and death of Janis Joplin) and Masekela Langage (a militant, African-flavored work about the effect of violence on lives today). If there...
More irksome to Lanusse than Perón's insults was a campaign slogan -"Campora in government, Perón in power"-being used by supporters of Hector Campora, the Peronista candidate for President. The government argued that the slogan violated the constitution, which states that the people do not govern except through elected representatives. On that ground, the junta filed suit in the National Electoral Court demanding that Peron's Justicialist Liberation Front, which had been given a good chance to win the election, be dissolved. If that happens, Peron will be left without a legal means...
...decision to decline the candidacy and promised to launch a legal appeal action to place his name on the March ticket. At week's end, though, the Front suddenly reversed field and picked a top Perónista henchman, a sometime dentist named Hector Campora, 63, as its candidate. Technically, Campora also is ineligible for the presidency under the rules of the Lanusse edict, since he spent several days in Madrid during the fall visiting...
...unite the civilian opposition to Argentina's military government, and then run for the presidency in the elections scheduled for March 11? Perón was typically Delphic, carefully sidestepping the question at a press conference that he held on Saturday. But a top henchman, Hector Campora, has declared that Perón is an "irreversible candidate...
Juan Peron, Argentina's onetime strongman, has said repeatedly that he would return to his homeland "when the people tell me the bollo [roll] is ready for the oven." Apparently the bollo is now ready. In Buenos Aires, Peron's top aide, Hector Compara, announced that el Lider would arrive in Argentina on Nov. 17, thus ending 17 years of exile abroad, most of it spent in princely isolation in Madrid...