Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Doris Kearns emerged with blotted copybooks, though for different reasons. Attempts to create new heroes failed miserably, despite heroic efforts in the cases of Ruben "Hurricane" Carter and Joey "Kid Blast" Gallo. And some shady characters weathered the year better than might be expected. Idi Amin, Isabel Peron, Indira Gandhi, and Stephen S.J. Hall all cling tenaciously to office...
...rebellion. Military leaders, apparently sharing the general dislike of Fautario, quickly acceded to one of the rebels' demands and dismissed him. But Fautario's successor, Brigadier General Orlando Ramon Agosti, was unsympathetic to the rebels' second, more ambitious goal: that Argentina's military should remove Isabel Perón as President and replace her with General Jorge Rafael Videla, the wiry and astute commander of the army. President Perón, meanwhile, cheerfully entertained members of the Argentina legislature on the wide lawns of her residence in suburban Olivos...
...someone must move fairly soon into the vacuum at the top of Argentina's political life. Isabel Perón has set a new presidential election for next October (somewhat self-servingly, on Peronist Loyalty Day). Whether the country can stand that long a wait is arguable. Inflation is now running at a rate of about 300% a year, and even the affluent middle class is living from day to day on rapidly dwindling buying power. Terrorism from both the right and left has claimed more than 1,500 lives since Juan Perón's death...
Concerned politicians in Argentina would like Isabel to step down, passing the presidential baton to the man next in line constitutionally, Senate Leader Italo Luder. Mrs. Perón's tenacity-at this point her only obvious political virtue-seems hardly to allow for such a solution. More realistically, some favor a brief coup by the military that would forcibly put Isabel on a plane to Spain and then turn the administration over to Luder. A number of younger plotters within the army would like to see the military suspend both the constitution and elections and rule the country...
General Videla's refusal to seize last week's opportunities to evict Isabel suggests that the military does not plan early action against her. Yet as election time draws nearer, there will be less and less popular support for any attempted coup. As a people, Argentines seem to want to wait out the crisis instead of facing it, as they have before. The departure of Isabel Perón would probably not change that mood, but more and more Argentines are convinced that it must come-in weeks if not days-if the nation is to preserve...