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...House, that Perón was not above challenge, the rebels cut his prestige to a doubtful quantity at the beginning of the week. Already the church had excommunicated him, and he found it prudent to turn the post-revolt mop-up entirely over to Army Minister General Franklin Lucero. In some offices government employees discreetly took down his portrait from the wall. Ominously, the official evening newscast failed to start at 8:25 p.m. with the requisite explanatory phrase that it was "the moment [one night three years ago] when Eva Perón entered immortality." Argentine athletes dropped...
...next presidential election, or the good standing with the U.S. that he demonstrated by getting a $60 million loan this year. Whatever happened, the 8:25 news program dedicated to Eva went back on the air, and Perón's portraits went back on the walls. Lucero began to look less like a new strongman and more like...
Forces of Repression. After the revolt, General Franklin Lucero, Perón's Army Minister and reputedly one of his closest military friends, formally took over -"at the express orders of the President" -the task of safeguarding "internal order and public tranquillity." An army communiqué stated that, as "Commander in Chief of the Forces of Repression," Lucero would be in charge of all security forces, even the federal police. With Lucero holding the big stick, Perón tried to quiet the nation's alarm by speaking softly-and with unabashed cynicism. He blamed "Communist elements...
...Miss) ALVA LUCERO (Miss) G. CAMPBELL...
When Argentina's 100% Peronista Senate met last week to consider a list of high army officers recommended for promotion, it noted a glaring omission: the name of Brigadier General Juan D. Peron. Summoned to explain the slight, Army Minister Franklin Lucero reported that the President had brilliantly fulfilled the requirements for promotion to major general, but had expressly ordered his name excluded from the list. "However," cried Lucero, "unless Congress remedies this situation, the President will find himself in an inferior status to his own fellows, purely because of his scruples...