Word: juan
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After six years of military dictatorship, Argentines will finally have a chance to choose a civilian government in presidential elections scheduled for next March. But even before the campaign warms up, it is turning into a standoff. A faction of the Justicialista Party of former Dictator Juan Perón has nominated him for President, and he is the dominant candidate, even though he is now 76 and has lived in exile for 17 years. Voters who remember the old days of free spending and populism under Perón are ready to vote for him in numbers large enough...
...spacious marble and granite palace on Lima's Plaza de Armas, Peru's leftist soldier-President, General Juan Velasco Alvarado, last week smilingly accepted the credentials of a tall, bearded diplomat named Antonio Núñez Jiménez. The new ambassador was a Cuban, the first from his country to take up residence in Lima since Peru broke off relations in 1960. The arrival of Núñez in Peru, which struggled with Cuban-supported, revolutionaries through much of the 1960s, was another sign of the increasing acceptance that Fidel Castro's regime...
...dedicated Democrat who learned his labor-union politics in Buffalo, Perlik managed a backhanded mandate for endorsement at last month's annual Guild convention in San Juan. Beaten in his effort to get the convention to endorse McGovern outright, he later won permission for the union's 15-member international executive board to "consider endorsing a candidate for the presidency following the national conventions...
...Golden Spinning Wheel, Symphonic Variations (London Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Kertesz conductor; London, $5.98). Mention the words "tone poem" and the average post-Romantic music buff will think of Franz (Mazeppa) Liszt or Richard (Don Juan) Strauss, but rarely of Dvorak. A pity, since Dvorak, too, was a master of the genre. His subjects varied from The Watersprite to The Midday Witch, but he was never more magical than in The Golden Spinning Wheel. Recounting the fairy tale of a lovely spinning girl who pays somewhat gruesomely for a king's love, Dvorak filled his 26-minute score with bold...
Although the President had specifically denied that Connally would "undertake a permanent Government assignment," speculation continued that he was being groomed for Secretary of State or Vice President-without any real evidence. In Latin America, there were warm talks with Argentine President Alejandro Agustin Lanusse and Peruvian dictator Juan Velasco Alvarado, but nothing concrete seemed to come out of the discussions. The inconclusive pattern continued in Australia and New Zealand. One Australian Minister called Connally a "high-powered Averell Harriman, only more impressive." Diplomats in Washington say he has proved to be a shrewd observer and called his mission...