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...early-morning radio program, then a stern voice declared: "The country is under the operational control of the Junta of the Commanding Generals of the Armed Forces." With that, Argentines last week heard the news that most of them were expecting: after 20 faltering months, the regime of President Isabel Perón had been toppled. In its place was a junta composed of the army, navy and air force chiefs, led by General Jorge R. Videla, 50, the army commander. By midafternoon, the generals had appointed a Cabinet of military men and pledged a "national reorganization to restore morality...
...recently reached the staggering rate of three per day (more than 2,200 Argentines have been killed by terrorists since Mrs. Perón came to power). Inflation was roaring at the pace of 600% annually and heading for 1,000% by the end of this year. But Isabel and her advisers clearly were unable to reverse the rising statistics of chaos...
Chance Encounter. In her months in office, Isabel proved to have little more political acumen than a cabaret dancer-which is what she was in 1956, when she had a chance encounter in Panama with Juan Perón, then freshly ousted by a coup after nine turbulent years as Argentina's President. She became his companion in luxurious exile in Madrid, married him in 1961 (she was 30, he was 66) and returned to Argentina with him in 1973. In that year she agreed to run for the vice presidency when he urged her to join...
...small clique of inept and often corrupt advisers. Among them was Astrologer-Mystic José López Rega, a kind of Pampas Rasputin whose power antagonized the military and whose conservative economic ideas upset labor. After popular demonstrations forced López Rega to quit last July, Isabel became a near recluse. At her infrequent public appearances, she was visibly nervous, often tearful and sometimes nearly hysterical. Last fall, claiming failing health, she took a leave to retreat to the hills of Córdoba to regain her strength. Many Argentines felt-and hoped-that she would resign...
More than 2,200 people have died in political violence and scores of others have been abducted by hooded terrorists since President Isabel Peron took office 20 months ago. But last week the violence took a new and ominous turn. A bomb exploded at the army headquarters in Buenos Aires, injuring 28 (including four colonels), killing a passing civilian truck driver, destroying a dozen vehicles, and even shattering windows more than 300 yards away in La Casa Rosada, the presidential palace. The left-wing Montonero guerrillas claimed responsibility for the blast, which seemed to signal an ugly change in their...