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...should be a cause for celebration whenever a Latin American government stages an honest election. Not so last week in Argentina. President Arturo Illia, a sometime physician, held an unrigged vote in the steaming, depressed northern province of Jujuy and was all but wiped off the slate. Illia's People's Radicals won only six seats in the 30-man provincial legislature...
...seats, the governorship and 71% of the vote. It was the latest testimony to the lasting popularity of ex-Dictator Juan Domingo PerÓn, 70, who, from his exile in Spain, still commands the hearts, if not the heads, of some 3,000,000 Argentines. In Jujuy (pronounced who-hooey), Peron's descamisados (shirtless ones) have always been especially strong; nationally, Peronistas have generally claimed from a fourth to a third of the ballots since the strongman was deposed ten years ago. Only the strong hand of the military, which threw him out in the name of constitutional...
...wrong Frondizi was became clear last week with the first election returns. With 86 congressional seats and 14 provincial governorships at stake, the Per&243;nistas won 44 seats and 9 provinces, plus Jujuy, where they ran in alliance with the Christian Democratic Party (see map). Actually, Per&243;nistas got only 35% of the vote, but their opponents were split. In the balloting, Frondizi's own Intransigent Radical Party polled 540,000 more votes than during the last national election in 1960. Yet so great was the Per&243;nista landslide that Frondizi's party lost...
...that speech, delivered in Jujuy last month, Radical Deputy Atilio Cattáneo had waxed sarcastic about the wealth which leading Peronistas now display-including President Perón's quinta at San Vicente, reputedly worth $300,000. A fortnight later Perón denounced the deputy's charges, prompting Prensa and Nación, which had not published the original speech, to print short resumes of it along with the President's reply. Roused by this action, Perón last week called his cabinet, the entire foreign correspondents' corps and some 50 local newsmen...
Died. Natalio Botana, 53, publisher of Buenos Aires' evening Critica; of auto-crash injuries; in Jujuy, Argentina. He built Critica from an obscure sheet to one of South America's biggest...
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