Word: madrid
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...Madrid...
...anticlimactic end to what Perón had hoped would be a return to power after twelve years of exile in Madrid. He had entered Argentina 28 days earlier like a returning folk hero. He exited like a rejected ward heeler, frustrated by the refusal of Argentina's current strongman, Alejandro Lanusse, to rescind an edict requiring presidential candidates to have been in Argentina on Aug. 25 (Lanusse announced last week that he will not be a candidate either). Perón had also been hurt by defections within his own Justicialist Front. Four parties dropped out amidst arguments...
...week's end, though, the Front suddenly reversed field and picked a top Perónista henchman, a sometime dentist named Hector Campora, 63, as its candidate. Technically, Campora also is ineligible for the presidency under the rules of the Lanusse edict, since he spent several days in Madrid during the fall visiting...
...have been out of the country for more than 15 days between Aug. 25 and the March elections-will rule out some top Peronist candidates. Many of them spent at least a month outside Argentina this year, conferring with Perón while he was in exile in Madrid...
...Costa Rica. At IOS's complex of buildings at Ferney-Voltaire in France, just across the border from Geneva, functionaries are preparing for relocation. They are selling everything movable, including bosses' rosewood desks and even toilet seats. Rumors are that the move will be either to Madrid or-no surprise-Costa Rica...