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...fatherland," spouts Lux 45. "You mean from the liver," answers the anti-Perón transmitter, japing at the Peronistas' bilious tone. "Perón, our leader," chants Lux 45. "Juan Domingo Gunboat." corrects the loyal radio, recalling the dictator's undignified exit aboard a Paraguayan warship...
...soon as they arrived, the visiting Presidents fanned out in search of old friends. Chile's Ibáñez popped in on Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner bright and early the day before the conference; Costa Rica's José Figueres dumped his bags in his room and headed for the hotel coffee shop for a chat with a group of old pals. At the first formal meeting at Arias' presidential palace, the informal talks went...
...revolutionaries, led by Central Bank President Epifanio Mendez Fleitas, were all Paraguayan admirers of Argentina's fallen dictator, Juan Perón. At one time, Stroessner himself was chummy enough with Perón to put his picture and Perón's together on Paraguayan postage stamps. But of late Argentina's revolutionary government has been pressing for de-Peronization in Paraguay as well as at home. Argentine exports to Paraguay of vitally needed flour and other foods began to fall off significantly. A fortnight ago. Stroessner sent a top general to hold private talks with...
...took down a picture of his late wife Evita from his bedroom wall, packed his clothes and drove off one midnight in Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner's own car. Well before dawn, Peron, who hates planes, was airborne in a DC-3 piloted by the Paraguayan air force's best flier. The plane's short range made any direct flight across the vast Amazonian jungles impossible; instead the aircraft hopscotched up the east coast of South America for four days. Stops on Peron's Odyssey...
...Paraguayan government, on Argentine urging, got ready to intern the ex-strongman on a ranch near orange-growing Villarrica, 90 miles from the Paraguayan-Argentine border. There Perón was to be confined to a small area and effectively silenced...