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Clarence H. Haring '07, Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, will speak on "The Peron Regime in Argentina" at 1:30 p.m. today at the Law School Coffee Hour in Harkness Commons...
...majority, Juan Peron this veek won a second six-year term as Argentina's President. With 90% of the ballots counted, he had 4,000,000 votes; his nearest rival, Radical Ricardo Balbin, had 2,100,000 and six other candidates trailed ar back in the ruck...
...Peron's margin was greater than his 55% edge in 1946, a popular mandate loudly acclaimed by his party followers. But it was not the kind of sweeping percentage that strong-man regimes commonly drum up. Peron, in fact, had not seemed to be trying during the campaign. After taking a leave of absence from office to barnstorm for an overwhelming victory, he canceled all such plans when tiis wife Evita fell gravely ill. Sticking lose to Evita's bedside, he made only four radio campaign speeches...
...Argentine civil rights took care of that. Harassed by police, barred from access to Dress and radio, the opposition was alowed only to hold open-air meetings. Balbin, the leading anti-Peronista, was arrested twice during the campaign for 'disrespect" to the President. To top things off, Peron imposed virtual martial law after last September's abortive army revolt. This lasted throughout the campaign, and was lifted only on election...
...Argentina's Peron...