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...During a 28-day visit to Buenos Aires, Perón attracted huge crowds of cheering supporters to his suburban villa. He also tested his strength by conferring with leaders throughout the Argentine political spectrum. As he headed back to Madrid, he endorsed the candidacy of former Dentist Hector Campora, who described himself as Peron's "obsequious servant." Last March, Campora won the election handily, and the stage was set for Perón to strut again...
...Hector Cámpora's first week as Argentina's new civilian President was marred by bloody rioting that left four dead and dozens wounded. Things have gone downhill since then. Despite his well-meaning efforts to chart a moderate direction for his new Peronist government, Cámpora now seems to be on a collision course with the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), 30,000 Trotskyite terrorists who are responsible for most of Argentina's recent wave of kidnapings and murders...
Hardly anyone in Argentina expected that the transition from the military junta of General Alejandro Lanusse to the newly elected civilian government of Peronista President-elect Hector Campora would be peaceful. Last week trouble came, although not, perhaps, in a manner that many had expected. On a busy Buenos Aires street, an urban guerrilla from a Trotskyite group called the People's Revolutionary Army shot and killed Rear Admiral Hermes Quijada, former chief of the Armed Forces Joint General Staff...
...deadly earnest, as they proved last week, when a group called the People's Revolutionary Army announced that it had "executed" Rear Admiral Francisco Aleman, a former chief of naval intelligence who disappeared on April 2. Last month, too, kidnapers crashed their truck into the car of Colonel Hector Iribarren, chief of intelligence for the Third Army Corps, and, when the dazed officer grappled with them, they killed him with a point-blank burst of automatic weapon fire...
...kidnapers are little better than bandits, but many of them claim to be acting either for socialism or for Peronism. President-elect Hector Campora, who was voted into power last month as the representative of the exiled Juan Peron, has asked the guerrillas to "grant us a truce" until after his government is installed May 25. There is little sign of that happening...