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General Eduardo Lonardi last week handed back to the Argentine people more of the rights and liberties lost under the dictatorship of Juan Perón. Acting with speed and sense, the new President...
Working twelve hours a day, Argentina's new President Eduardo Lonardi last week set about the orderly launching of his own administration and dismantling of the police-state trappings and symbolism of the discredited Perón regime...
...handling of organized labor-the one area where Perón had a solid base of political support-Lonardi moved with caution and conciliation. Instead of using his state-of-siege power to "intervene," i.e., take over, the powerful General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), he announced his confidence that labor could purge its own ranks without government compulsion. The new President also stepped adroitly around the vexed question of La Prensa, the great newspaper that Perón confiscated and turned over to the C.G.T. with an elaborate show of legality. Lonardi explained that he would not hand the paper...
...career soldier, Lonardi naturally leaned heavily on old and trusted friends for his administrative appointments. He made a clean sweep of scores of Peronista governors and mayors; so many senior military men were called on for temporary service in these jobs that Lonardi found himself short of qualified division and regimental commanders. His cabinet, however, was mainly civilian, and Argentines seemed to think it serious and competent...
After nine years, press freedom came back to Argentina last week by proclamation of Provisional President Eduardo Lonardi. On the same day, anti-Peronist employees of the famed independent La Prensa, seized by Perón in 1951, threw pictures and busts of the dictator and his wife, Eva. from the building, began publishing the paper minus the masthead slogan "in the era of Perón." Editor and Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz, who has lived in exile in Manhattan, prepared to fly back to Buenos Aires in hopes of resuming control of Latin America's greatest newspaper. Said...