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Hector Cámpora's first week as Argentina's new civilian President was marred by bloody rioting that left four dead and dozens wounded. Things have gone downhill since then. Despite his well-meaning efforts to chart a moderate direction for his new Peronist government, Cámpora now seems to be on a collision course with the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), 30,000 Trotskyite terrorists who are responsible for most of Argentina's recent wave of kidnapings and murders...
...outside world, Peronist Argentina has hopes of playing an important neutralist role. Last week, while Perón received congratulations from Rumania's Communist leader Nicolae Ceauşescu, Cámpora went off to an audience with Pope Paul VI, an honor that Perón himself was recently denied...
Alejandro Lanusse, Argentina's military strongman, who had been doing his best to ignore Perón, is now close to war with el Lider's rambunctious followers. Speaking to reporters in the city of Bahía Blanca last week, Lanusse denied that a Peronist youth leader had been jailed in the rioting, but he made it clear that he thought the young man should have been locked up. "Patience has a limit," he warned. "At any moment we can show that we do not carry weapons as ornaments." As for Perón: "That gentleman...
...residency deadline for presidential candidates. Moreover, a little-noticed clause in the government's declaration-stipulating that a presidential candidate must not have been out of the country for more than 15 days between Aug. 25 and the March elections-will rule out some top Peronist candidates. Many of them spent at least a month outside Argentina this year, conferring with Perón while he was in exile in Madrid...
...more serious problem for Perón is a fractioning within the Peronist movement itself. Two weeks ago two delegates were killed in a convention-floor gunfight during a Peronist meeting held in Santa...