Word: peroneal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...least among them is the future of the heterogeneous Peronist movement. It was the man and his grandiose style that kept Peronism together. After his return to Buenos Aires last June, ending 18 years of exile, even Peron had difficulty enforcing peace and unity among his disparate followers. On the one side was a powerful conservative bloc made up of unionists, military men, landowners and businessmen. A new group of younger Peronists?mainly students, intellectuals and young professionals?appeared on the radical left...
Third Position. During his first two terms, Peron stripped the political power of the hated latifundistas, the landowning oligarchy that had dominated Argentine politics. He moved against unpopular foreign business interests by having the state buy the British-owned railways and ITT-owned telephone system. In foreign affairs he was the first postwar advocate of nonalignment, urging a "third position" as an alternative to joining the blocs led either by the U.S. or the Soviet Union. He conducted a vociferous anti-U.S. campaign, alleging that there was a "gigantic North American plot" to seize Cuban sugar, Bolivian tin, Chilean...
...even the idea of a "third position" probably reflected Perón's strong sympathy for Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, two governments that saw themselves as a "third way" between Communism and capitalism. After experiencing Mussolini's regime in the early 1940s?he observed Italian Alpine ski troops?Peron called il Duce "the greatest man of our century." He later turned Argentina into a haven for suspected war criminals...