Word: peronist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ravaged by an inflation that has impoverished the workers and terrified the middle class. Fascists and Marxists have begun fighting in the streets. Millions of Argentines looked to the return of Perón for both change and national unity, but the battle near Ezeiza Airport shows that the Peronist movement is as deeply divided as Argentina itself...
...neared the meadow, there were signs of trouble near the dais, where the returning general was scheduled to speak beneath a 100-ft.-high portrait of himself. Right-wing union leaders dominated the dais, and young leftists wanted a bigger role for themselves. "A Socialist motherland!" they shouted. "A Peronist motherland!" the rightists shouted back...
...about 2 p.m. the loudspeakers ordered that some people who had climbed into the surrounding trees must come down. I wondered why, and then I saw that there were sharpshooters in the trees. Just as the orchestra began to play the Peronist march, the first shots were fired. Then they began coming from every which way. We on the journalists' platform threw ourselves to the ground. At first the orchestra conductor did not stop the music but got onto a chair and conducted all the more vigorously. Then the sound system went off. I remember seeing a bass-fiddle...
...Within a fortnight of Perón's second homecoming, guerrillas kidnaped a West German clothing manufacturer, the American head of Firestone of Argentina, and a British banker. A $10 million ransom for the three has been demanded. One Buenos Aires businessman groaned about the banker, for whom Peronist guerrillas are asking $8,000,000: "We may lose...
Though the kidnapings are the most spectacular crimes, violence now seems to pervade almost all levels of Argentine society. Shortly after Cámpora's inauguration, hundreds of government offices and institutions were taken over by young Peronist organizers and students on charges that administrators were politically "unreliable...