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Electing a woman Vice President in male-dominated Argentina was no easy task. Indeed, when the Justicialist convention nominated Perón and his third wife last August, many Argentines reacted with incredulity and anger. Isabelita broke down in tears when she accepted her party's vice-presidential nomination, but the weeping was a deceptive sign of weakness. In fact, she seems to be every bit as tough and ambitious as Perón himself...
...toughest challenge came last August: she had to mollify the many elements within the Justicialist movement who had only reluctantly acquiesced in her nomination. At first they had rea son to regret their choice. In her initial campaign appearances, she often looked as if she had been laminated in plastic immediately after leaving her coiffeur...
...presidential election, which since Cámpora has resigned, must be called within 30 days. The interim President will be a Peronist, Raúl Lastiri, head of the Chamber of Deputies. But there is little doubt that Perón will be elected the new President. The Justicialist Liberation Front delivered 49.6% of the vote for Cámpora, Perón's hand-picked candidate in the March presidential elections. With Perón as the candidate, the Justicialists will certainly increase their margin of victory...
...head last week. Shouting "Power to Perón!" Peronist workers threatened to paralyze the nation with a general strike unless Cámpora and his Cabinet quit forthwith. Peronist congressmen likewise agitated for Cámpora's ouster, as did moderate party members within the Justicialist movement. The only major opposition to Perón came from left-wing Peronist youth, who feared that a sudden change of heads of government would signal a shift to the right and thus scuttle their chance of turning Argentina toward Marxism. They denounced the "right-wing coup" and briefly occupied three...
That direct challenge was too much for the Cámpora government and its allies. A Peronist group called the Central Security Command of the Justicialist Movement announced that "for every Peronist who falls, ten [Trotskyites] will fall." Other Peronists, alarmed that the ending of their 18 years in the political wilderness might be jeopardized by ERP excesses, have discussed adopting South Vietnamese anti-guerrilla tactics. "The most effective way of stopping this," said one angry Peronist, "would be to take ten of the ERPS up in a plane, throw out eight, and let the two survivors tell their friends...