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Harsh Charge. The colonel's remark was a startling hint that the army, a major support of the regime, was grumbling. Perón's next shock came a day later when Defense Minister José Humberto Sosa Molina entered a cabinet meeting arm in arm with Eduardo Vuletich, boss of Argentine labor. By this gesture, labor, the other support of Peronismo, served notice that it shared the army's discontent. Taking the floor, Vuletich attacked allegedly corrupt officials, notably the President's private secretary, Juan Duarte, brother of the late Eva Perón. When...
Lethal Toys. So successful was this first trial run that it was decided to improve the workers' equipment. El Ciudadano published texts of three "very confidential" letters, dated last December, in which the Argentine firm of Ballester Molina contracted to deliver, for $580,000. a consignment of 5,000 automatic pistols and 2,000 carbines to the Eva Perón Social Aid Foundation. El Ciudadano somberly pointed out that such toys were obviously not for Senora Perón's famed Children's Village, nor for her junior soccer tournament...
Before 2,000 delegates of his obedient Dominican Party, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina announced last week that he would not seek a fifth term in next year's presidential election. But, he added, "my presence shall not be lacking in the solution of any fundamental problem." Dominicans knew what that meant: Generalissimo Trujillo, self-styled Benefactor of the Fatherland, would still be watching...
...down from the second floor to show her guests. Perón gave his friend Don Jaime a hand-tooled Belgian automatic shotgun, just the gift for an ambassador whose favorite Argentine sport has been weekend partridge shooting (in the Gaucho getup given him by Defense Minister Humberto Sosa Molina...
...next day, Peronistas were cockier than ever. At the army's vast Campo de Mayo base, the President and his blonde wife were ostentatiously received by their recent critic, Defense Secretary José Humberto Sosa Molina. In a speech dripping with consideration for Señora Perón, Sosa Molina said: "The significance of her presence among us as a special guest of honor is nothing but a stout denial of rumors that picture the army as opposing...