Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tears seem to be the hallmark of Isabel Perón's troubled presidency. Fourteen months ago, she led Argentina in an emotional period of mourning for her husband and political mentor, Juan Domingo Perón. More recently, her publicly shed tears have become both a sign of her own increasingly fragile physical and emotional condition and an apt acknowledgment of the problems that her erratic rule has brought to her country. A week ago, when she handed over temporary executive power to Italo Luder, Provisional President of the Argentine Senate, she was choking back tears once again...
...routine assignment and ended like an episode from a comic opera. On his way from Rio to the Peruvian capital early last week, Hillenbrand stopped off for a half-day in Buenos Aires. The city, he found, was alive with talk of a coup against the government of Isabel Perón. Connecting with a flight that arrived at midnight-"All flights seem to arrive in Lima at midnight," he notes-Hillenbrand spent six days covering a long round of speeches and committee meetings at the conference site at the Crillon Hotel. The rather quiet routine was enlivened briefly...
...Chileans killed in Latin America and Europe during a power struggle among leftist guerrillas. It was published in an obscure Buenos Aires weekly called Lea. In the same issue, the only one ever published, were editorial attacks against several Argentines who had recently incurred the displeasure of either President Isabel Perón or her hated adviser, former Social Welfare Minister José López Rega. A check of the address given on Lea's title page revealed no building; near by, however, was a publishing house operated by the Argentine Ministry of Social Welfare...
...Rega had just been forced to resign as Minister of Social Welfare and personal secretary to President Isabel Perón-the positions that had made him the most powerful man in Argentina. Mrs. Perón, who has erratically governed the country since the death of her husband a year ago, was clearly in poor physical and emotional health. Argentina seemed to be teetering ever closer to economic collapse...
...fastest to find jobs. Says James Chandler, a State Department liaison officer at Eglin: "I thought the fishermen would be the hardest group to place, but there is a demand for them all the way from Florida to Texas." Last week 25 fishermen and their families flew to Port Isabel, Texas, where Isbell Seafood, Inc. will put them on its 21 shrimp boats...