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...control of the floundering country. Auditors later discovered that during Perón's years in power, Argentina's treasury had been drained of $1.25 billion. After bouncing around in exile from Paraguay to Panama to Venezuela to the Dominican Republic, Perón finally settled in Madrid in 1960, where he bought a $500,000 villa that he called "17 de Octubre." There Peron kept in touch with his loyalists in Argentina, goading them to civil strife with taped messages, letters and personal envoys...
Died. Henri Charrière, 67, alias "Papillon" (Butterfly), whose 1969 book of the same name chronicled his nine hair-raising escape attempts from France's antiquated dungeons in French Guiana; of throat cancer; in Madrid. Charrière, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1931 for murder, finally broke out of Devil's Island in 1941 and found asylum in Caracas, where he became a gold prospector, shrimp fisherman, bar owner and eventually a best-selling author, with 14 million book sales worldwide...
...What is the point of "getting away" if we must carry all of our paraphernalia with us to insulate ourselves from a new environment [July 2]? Like the American tour ists who asked the hotel clerk whether they were in the Paris or the Madrid Hilton, campers may soon be asking each other if this is Nettles Island or Camperland...
Geraldine Chaplin was sitting on top of the world. Charlie's oldest daughter, 28, was in Madrid with her lover, Director Carlos Saura. She was also playing Anne of Austria in a zany new version of The Three Musketeers directed by Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night). Meanwhile four other versions of the Dumas novel were being filmed, two in Italy and two in France, making this the summer of the 15 Musketeers...
Most nonfood prices are zooming too. As many as 50% of the families in some suburbs around Stockholm have had to seek special state aid to pay leaping rents. Auto traffic in Barcelona and Madrid now thins noticeably during the last week of each month, because until the next monthly paycheck arrives many Spanish motorists are too broke to buy gasoline at 52? a gallon, up 25% in two years...