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...stains on his military honor," a court of generals last week threw Juan Peron out of the Argentine army and forbade him "forever" to wear its uniform. Some of the stains: last June's church-burnings; the "waves of idolatry" that Peron permitted for himself ("towns, houses, schools, prizes and even a province were given his name"); and "relations with a minor"-namely, Peron's bobby-soxer mistress Nelly Rivas (TIME, Oct. 10), with whom he "cohabited for two years in the presidential palace," starting when Nelly was only...
...Relations with a minor" is a common, nonpolitical crime that could have subjected the exiled Peron to extradition to Argentina for trial. Moreover, Paraguay, his host, had become increasingly nervous over his presence so near to Argentina. So when old friend Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, the Nicaraguan dictator, invited him to drop in for a visit, Peron decided to move...
...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...
...Exports-the sales abroad of meat, wool and grains that once made Argentina one of the world's greatest trading nations -dropped in the last five years to one-half of their previous volume. Reason: Peron's government grabbed control of all exports and crippled farm production in an attempt to squeeze out profits to finance an ill-planned industrialization. ¶Industrialization, too, utterly failed to bring Argentina power, steel, fuel, even such essential equipment as trucks and farm machinery...
First Challenge. Lonardi's talk was plainly disquieting to Argentina labor, which now feared a drive to freeze wages and raise lagging productivity. Toward week's end, leaders of the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), once a major bulwark for Peron and currently embroiled in a power struggle with rival labor chiefs, threatened to call a general strike. But Lonardi met the challenge head on. He suspended every union official in the country, empowered army officers to organize and run off union elections for 120 days hence. The strike threat petered...