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...they piled up 2,000,000 void ballots. Two weeks ago Perón, now an exile in the Dominican Republic, changed tactics and passed the word to vote for Frondizi. The only apparent reason was that Frondizi had been outspoken in criticism of the provisional government that booted Peron out in 1955. But Perón's move clearly changed the course of the campaign, in which the pro-government Balbin had been a slight favorite...
...Argentina's Juan Domingo Peron, 62, having seized power in a 1943 military coup and put a stranglehold on the country that lasted until his wastrel ways brought economic distress and the opposition of the Roman Catholic Church, was dumped in a military uprising in September 1955, fled to Paraguay, then to Venezuela...
Argentina, determined to broaden its economic base and achieve self-sufficiency, built factories by decree, not in answer to economic demand. In eight years Dictator Juan Peron transformed Argentina's economy from predominantly agricultural to predominantly industrial, but left it saddled with inefficient plants making products that are priced out of the market...
...HOME AGAIN-by Juan Peron...
Peronista Key. The key to the election lies with more than 2,000,000 onetime supporters of Peron who do not number themselves among the Peron-controlled hard core. If they yield to Frondizi's frantic wooing, he will gain control of the assembly and defeat constitutional reform, which will help him toward his eventual goal: the presidential office with all its powers intact. Hopefully for the Aramburu program, these voters have been drifting over to Frondizi in smaller numbers than he expected. On the other hand, if the halfhearted ex-Peronistas adopt the hard core's self...