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...attempted to turn her homecoming into a joyous re-enactment of the Oct. 17, 1945, rally that forced the Argentine military to free then Colonel Juan Perón from prison. But despite the sentimental significance of the day, no more than 40,000 turned out to hear Mrs. Peron speak. The disappointing turnout was attributed as much to waning enthusiasm for the Peronist government itself as to fears of possible guerrilla violence...
...nations for 15 years. Only in Argentina is it expected that terrorists might effectively disrupt the government in 1975. No end is in sight for the wave of kidnapings and killings by feuding rightists and leftists that have taken more than one life each day since President Juan Peron died last July...
Within weeks after Tad Szulc arrived in Argentina in 1955 on his first Latin American assignment for the New York Times, Juan Peron was toppled in a coup. In 1958 Szulc flew into Venezuela just in time to report the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez. In 1968 he was in Prague when Soviet tanks rolled in. Last week Szulc, 48, now a freelancer, left for Israel to do an article pegged to Henry Kissinger's visit; Jerusalem be alert for some kind of spectacle. If Israel escapes unscathed, Kissinger's image will likely be less fortunate...
...reign of terror that has plagued Argentina since the death of President Juan Peron on July 1 continued unabated last week. Political violence claimed its 100th victim in three months when Army Captain Miguel Paiva was gunned down last Wednesday as he waited at a bus stop near his home in Buenos Aires. His murder brought to eight the number of military killed or wounded since a left-wing terrorist group vowed last month to assassinate sixteen officers to avenge the deaths of sixteen guerrillas (TIME, Sept. 30). In addition, a terrorist's bomb killed Chile's exiled...
...generation of American wanderers, turning to the south to expend their wanderlust in place of the traditional Europe, travel not only to Santiago but also to Quito and Lima, to the Brazilian northwest and the Andean highlands. American students talk not only of Allende but also of Peron and Echevarria...