Word: peronist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rally that forced the Argentine military to free then Colonel Juan Perón from prison. But despite the sentimental significance of the day, no more than 40,000 turned out to hear Mrs. Peron speak. The disappointing turnout was attributed as much to waning enthusiasm for the Peronist government itself as to fears of possible guerrilla violence...
Responsible leaders of the Peronist movement privately-and sometimes publicly-admit that they have not much time to get Argentina's house in order. Victorio Calabro, governor of Buenos Aires province, stirred up a hornet's nest of recrimination recently when he declared: "We won't make it to [the national elections hi] '77 if we go on this way." Even Mrs. Perón's closest adviser, Angel F. Robledo, who as Interior Minister emerged as the new strongman during her absence, admits as much. "It doesn't matter who is interim President...
Halfway around the world, another political kidnaping came to a tragic end. In Cordoba, Argentina last week, Montoneros leftist-Peronist terrorists abducted the honorary U.S. Consul, John P. Egan, 62, from his home. The terrorists demanded that four jailed comrades be released "alive and healthy" by 7 p.m. on Friday-or Egan, a retired Kaiser Industries executive, would be "executed." Both the U.S. embassy and Argentine Foreign Minister Alberto Vignes refused to negotiate with the kidnapers. Late Friday night, on a lonely dirt road outside Cordoba, Egan's body was found riddled with bullets and wrapped in a Montoneros...
...husband. Peronism had always been more of a personality cult than a cohesive political ideology. With El Lider gone, the danger was that his followers, who ranged from conservative businessmen to radical students and unionists, would realize what impossibly strange bedfellows they made. The inevitable splintering of the Peronist movement, whose fundamental divisions were clear long before Perón died, was briefly forestalled by a period of intense national mourning that united Argentines. As the current violence attests, the widow's "honeymoon" is now definitely over...
...Warnings. Then there are the guerrillas. Although there has been a lull in terrorism, most observers feel that the leftist Peronists and the out-and-out guerrillas have only been taking stock. Both the Marxist People's Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.) and the Montoneros, left-wing Peronist guerrillas, have issued warnings of new revolutionary activity. Wrote Domingo Menna, a high E.R.P. officer, "We are at the beginning of a revolutionary situation...