Word: miel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paper. That afternoon, while government speakers droned on, Convention President Mercante, who is provincial governor of Buenos Aires and one of Perón's closest friends, met with Peronista leaders. Shortly afterwards, the majority floor leader, Angel Miel Asquia, came out to tell the press that they had decided to drop the proposal to let a President succeed himself...
Veteran reporters demanded proof. Miel Asquia waved a paper at them. A reporter from Noticias Graficas grabbed it, examined it minutely. Sure enough, it carried the names of such party stalwarts as Mercante, Hector Campora, chief of the capital's Peronistas, and Miel Asquia himself. Every newspaper in Buenos Aires, including Señora Perón's Democracia, reported that Article 77, which forbids two successive terms for Presidents, would go unchanged...