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More change lies ahead. Early last month, Superior General Pedro Arrupe, 73, who was responsible for overseeing the society's troubled course in the stormy years since the Second Vatican Council, was felled by a stroke. A Spanish Basque, like Loyola, Arrupe served nearly three decades as a missionary in Japan before being elected the order's leader in 1965. Though Arrupe is expected to leave the hospital this month, he is not likely to resume the arduous job of managing the Jesuits. Just last year, in fact, Arrupe made the unprecedented announcement that he wished to resign...
...after the 1973 return to power of former Dictator Perón, Argentina suffered the worst bout of terrorism on the continent. Thousands of left-wing Perónist disciples, known as Montoneros, allied with Trotskyite guerrillas to terrorize and murder at will. Among their victims: onetime Argentine President Pedro Aramburu, General Juan Carlos Sánchez, commander of the Argentine army Second Corps, and John Patrick Egan, a U.S. government representative. Some 700 people were killed by guerrillas, most of them members of the security forces. The guerrillas kidnaped scores of businessmen, particularly foreigners, and companies such as Kodak...
...flat-out strip between nothing. Nothing except South of the Border. I took the appropriate exit, drove slowly through the center of the "attraction" and kept on going down an old back road, heading toward the nearest town and ignoring the huge placard imploring me in the name of Pedro to reverse my course...
...South of the Border drew me back. In the hot early afternoon, it's nearly empty. The ice-cream store had three waiters but one customer; no one else wandered through Fort Pedro and its rows of Roman candles and cherry bombs. Even Mr. Holliday was gone, but he came back eventually and ushered me into his absolutely bare office. Not a thing on the wood siding walls. "We won the governor's award for the best attraction in 1978," he says proudly...
...except for the neon yellow handrail, very dark on the footbridge spanning the road that bisects South of the Border. An occasional car goes by beneath, headlights playing on the walls of Fort Pedro ("all kind Confederate souvenirs and most legal fireworks you gonna find anywhere"). In the distance are the pinball and the gas station and the tamale stand. And on one of the three "sweem" pools, this sign: "Pool for the use of hotel guests only. All others will be hanged by the neck until dead...