Word: peroneal
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...owner. So stringent are the rules protecting depositors-bankers who violate them risk 20,000-franc fines ($4,577 ) and six months in jail-that relatives of Iraq's King Feisal could not touch his account after his assassination, and Argentina's deposed Dictator Juan Peron is still unable to get at the $60 million fortune reportedly cached by his late wife...
...Born in Buenos Aires, Borges stayed to live and write, though there was plenty of reason for a writer to move. As a young lyric poet, he was condemned by the hidebound traditionalists who dominated Argentine literature. Later, when writing prose, he ran afoul of pro-Nazi Dictator Juan Peron, who banned his books. But by doggedly pursuing his writing, Borges has brought literary excitement to a country that experiences it only rarely. He has also established his own reputation among small but demanding groups of readers in Argentina and around the world. Plagued by an inherited eye disease...
...weeks since the followers of ex-Dictator Juan D. Perón scored a surprise victory in national elections, Argentina has been a land living under military rule, preserving only the flimsiest façade of democracy. Arturo Frondizi, the deposed constitutional President who gave Peron's still-faithful descamisados (shirtless ones) a place on the ballot, still waits on his prison island in the Rio de la Plata. In the Buenos Aires Presidential Palace sits a puppet President, José Maria Guido, a minor politician who must wait, too-wait for the military men, who fear Peron...
...came to the U.S. a little over three years ago, but I've kept myself in formed all the time about the political move ments in my native country. You should emphasize a little bit more that the present Peronista Party's leaders are actually using Peron. As one U.S. official put it: "They are far too ambitious to want him back." NELSON FAY Hollywood...
...massive wave of pro-Peron ballots struck a shattering blow at the Frondizi government and indirectly at President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress aid to Latin America...