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...with national elections scheduled for Oct. 30, the junta is apparently becoming more desperate. The law has been constructed so that the courts cannot question its provisions and an incoming civilian government cannot reverse the blanket amnesty it grants. Nonetheless, most election candidates rejected the law. Italo Luder of the Peronists and Raul Alfonsin of the Radicals confidently promised to repeal it, if elected. Said Argentine Novelist Ernesto Sabato: "I think that this is the only case in the history of international law in which the guilty dictate a law exonerating themselves...
...with guns. At the national convention, appropriately held in a Buenos Aires musical-comedy theater, internecine feuding forced a two-day recess. When the 605 delegates finally came to a vote, however, they momentarily put their differences behind them. By an overwhelming margin, the Peronist Party nominated Italo Argentino Luder, 66, as its candidate for next month's elections, Argentina's first since the military seized power seven years ago. Declared Luder: "To be the candidate of Peronismo is to be certain of becoming President...
...Luder's toughest task will be to persuade the Peronists' sizable right-wing factions to adopt his platform of progressive reform. For decades, Peronism has stood for very little beyond keeping the military strong, the President all-powerful and the economy state-controlled. Luder, a former constitutional-law professor, hopes instead to forge an image of moderate pragmatism. Thus far, his economic policies amount to vague endorsements of price controls and increased exports. After his nomination, he said, more concretely: "The armed forces will be subordinated to political power and be assigned their specific function, the defense...
Concerned politicians in Argentina would like Isabel to step down, passing the presidential baton to the man next in line constitutionally, Senate Leader Italo Luder. Mrs. Perón's tenacity-at this point her only obvious political virtue-seems hardly to allow for such a solution. More realistically, some favor a brief coup by the military that would forcibly put Isabel on a plane to Spain and then turn the administration over to Luder. A number of younger plotters within the army would like to see the military suspend both the constitution and elections and rule the country...
...Italo Luder, 58, the conscientious but colorless Senate leader who was interim President in Mrs. Perón's absence, is not likely to be confused with Winston Churchill. But Luder is seen as the best alternative to a possible military takeover. "I can't tell you there won't be a coup," said a leading radical Senator last week. "But I think the chances for avoiding one would be much better with Luder than with...