Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announced that general elections, the first in ten years, would be held in March 1973. Perón let the Aug. 25 deadline for presidential candidates slip by, insisting that the ruling was unconstitutional. But with his supporters clamoring for his return, he decided to leave his home in Madrid. Remaining there would be tantamount to an abdication of power...
Intimations of mortality were apparent on the first leg of the trip, a flight from Madrid to Rome for a three-day stopover. Perón, accompanied by his third wife Isabel, several bodyguards and a secretary, boarded a sleek Mystère-20 executive jet emblazoned with the Argentine colors. The plane was said to have been donated by a German industrialist in Madrid...
...Master's Voice. Perón's lavish, autocratic style in exile does not suggest that he would lead a new order much different from the old. Located in Madrid's most elegant suburb, his rambling, fieldstone mansion, Quinta 17 de Octubre (from the date of his accession to power in Argentina), is tastefully furnished in Spanish style, surrounded by broad lawns, thick shrubbery and 12-ft.-high burglarproof fences. General Franco's El Pardo Palace and Prince Juan Carlos' Zarzuela Palace are not far away. Perón is reported to be a millionaire...
...Lanusse, Perón seemed to be asking instead of demanding that the Argentine people unite in a grand coalition that would restore the excitement and euphoria of his first years in power. Considering the obstacles ahead, it was highly possible that he might soon be forced back to Madrid in humiliation and defeat. But if Perón were to succeed in his mission, it would clearly have to be reckoned as one of the most spectacular comebacks in modern political history...
...third wife Isabelita, 41, several aides, household servants and numerous bodyguards, but not Eva, his second wife, who died in 1952 and is considered a saint by Argentina's descamisados, or shirtless ones. Her embalmed body, now lodged in a crystal-topped silver coffin, rests in a monastery near Madrid. It will probably follow later, provided Peron can find a burial place that would be safe from the devout depredations of Evita cultists or the angry assaults of anti-Peronistas...