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...Juan Peron, from exile in tolerant Panama, running a campaign of sabotage and harassment against the revolutionary government that threw him out? Last week, after at least seven brush-fire in surrections in 24 days, many Argentines were beginning to think...
...Peron's direction of the plotters was understandably hard for the government to prove, but some evidence existed. In Uruguay a fortnight ago, his private secretary, Luis Radeglia, who had flown in from Panama, was detained and found to have tape recordings of Peron speeches, presumably for broadcasts to the homeland. In Buenos Aires Peronistas were peddling phonograph records labeled as tangos but really pep talks by Peron...
...regime's headaches have economic as well as political roots. In recent weeks Aramburu has given Argentina an unpalatable dose of austerity to try to clear up the economic mess inherited from Peron. The country's best-known economist, U.N. Official Raul Prebisch, reported that government interference under Peron had crippled economic development and kept the country's average per capita income almost stationary for ten years. He recommended stripping off many controls, e.g., an artificially high peso exchange rate, and taking anti-inflationary fiscal measures. A healthy if painful readjustment is taking place...
...news instead of the traditional London Times-like classified ads, considered making body type larger and writing more concise. But before he could start publishing again, Gainza Paz awaited a three-month supply of newsprint. In view of an acute shortage and the snarl of red tape left by Peron, nobody knew how much longer that would take...
...cold to cover a labor convention may make it sing." Because of his own talent for going in cold to tackle a top story, Ed Lahey, who calls himself a "paid free lancer," has roved the world in recent years on top stories, e.g., early attempts to depose Peron in Argentina this year, Guatemala's anti-Communist uprising in 1954, and South Africa's explosive racial tension...