Word: isabel
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Tanned and rested, Argentine President Isabel Perón, 44, returned to Buenos Aires last week from the hills of Cordoba after a 32-day holiday of long walks, a little golf and almost no visitors. Loyal Peronistas promptly attempted to turn her homecoming into a joyous re-enactment of the Oct. 17, 1945, rally that forced the Argentine military to free then Colonel Juan Perón from prison. But despite the sentimental significance of the day, no more than 40,000 turned out to hear Mrs. Peron speak. The disappointing turnout was attributed as much to waning enthusiasm...
...leftist organization that probably has the greatest potential for destruction is the Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat, popularly known as the Revolutionary Brigades. Headed by Isabel do Carmo -the Rosa Luxemburg* of the Portuguese revolution-the Brigades believe that armed action is justified to overthrow the government. They have many of the estimated 30,000 weapons stolen from the army, and the allegiance of thousands of low-ranking soldiers and sailors. "The movement must be accompanied by force," Carmo recently told TIME'S Martha de la Cal. "There must be an armed insurrection." She added: "I think we have...
Long Walks. The next day a worn, anemically thin Isabel Perón, 44, boarded a plane and was flown to an air force recreation camp in the hills of Córdoba province 560 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. She was accompanied by the wives of the three armed forces commanders, whose evident role was to demonstrate that she still had the support of the military establishment. Inside the heavily guarded camp, where she is expected to stay for at least 45 days, she began a routine of long walks in the Argentine spring sunshine, playing golf and watching...
...official accounts have it, Mrs. Perón is due back in La Casa Rosada in late October or early November. But there are signs that Isabel's "little goodbye" could turn into a long farewell. Less than 24 hours after her departure, Interim President Luder began shuffling her Cabinet; he forced resignations from Defense Minister Jorge Garrido and Interior Minister Vicente Damasco, Mrs. Perón's closest adviser in recent weeks...
...flight from Buenos Aires to a golf and cartoon holiday was the latest chapter in a singularly improbable career. Born Maria Estela Martinez in 1931, the sixth child of a middle-class family from the impoverished Argentine province of La Rioja, Isabel owes her tenuous hold on power to a chance encounter with Juan Perón in 1956. Then 25, she was a petite dancer touring Central America with a troupe called Joe and his Ballets. Perón, then 60, had just been overthrown by a military coup following nine years as President. After catching...