Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pinned Galahad. By this time his parents were separated, and young Che spent most of his time with his mother and her friends, who ranged the political spectrum from parlor pink to Moscow red. He battled in the streets against Dictator Juan Peron and played amateur rugby at top speed, wheezing to the sidelines from time to time for whiffs from the inevitable atomizer. He still bitterly recalls one violent episode from this period. Sitting in a Buenos Aires bar one evening, Che was annoyed when a U.S. merchant seaman made a pass at a girl near Che. Che tried...
...that not only had their sovereignty been flouted in the eyes of the world, but that Israel was treating them like gullible fools. Nor were they pleased by a gratui tous reference in the Israeli note to "numerous Nazis" living in Argentina. It is true that ex-Dictator Juan Peron had granted asylum to many Nazis; the present government does not enjoy being reminded of the sins of its predecessors...
...committed suicide, and in the chaos of the war squirmed through the nets spread for his capture. Taken prisoner by U.S. forces in Austria in 1945, Eichmann soon escaped, made his way to north Germany, where he worked as a forester, then to Spain before moving on to Peron's Argentina. After his capture, Eichmann is said to have remarked: "It's a relief. I've been expecting this for a long time...
...year regime. After TNT blasted an army intelligence major's home and killed his three-year-old daughter, Frondizi declared a state of "internal war"; police dragnets swept through the capital at night to knock on 1,400 doors and haul off 250 followers of ousted Dictator Juan Peron. Coming on the eve of a mid-term congressional election that no one can really win, the trouble pointed up the odd state of a democratic nation that is moving ahead, but almost totally without popular support...
...elections next week. Frondizi has such big majorities in the holdover section of Congress that he will retain control no matter what happens. But the force that really keeps him in power is the same one that keeps the Peronistas from outright rebellion: the Argentine military, which hates Peron and understands Frondizi's development program even though much of the rest of Argentina does not want...