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...Lanusse and Videla was another leader of some notoriety. His name was Juan Perdn, and his two reigns covered some ten years (1946-55, 1973-74). His second coming lasted just one year. Then he died, leaving the country to his wife Isabelita, and to chaos. During the last Peronista years, terror spread by the guerrilla left was a similar but bloodier version of that practiced by the Screwery. It paralyzed the country with out materially advancing the revolution aries' aims - and brought on the current repression. There have been some signs that the Videla regime would like...
Even most of the left-whig Peronista youth, who suspected Isabelita of being too conservative, are now at least temporarily willing to give her a chance...
...posters appeared throughout Argentina hailing Isabelita as "the perfect Peronista" and "Evita's successor," the lady herself tried to look and act like "the little Madonna," as Eva was called. She has dyed her chestnut hair blonde like Evita's, she wears a silver mink coat like Evita's, she is making good-will tours like Evita's. But when Isabel accepted the vice-presidential nomination, an honor that Eva had declined in 1951, angry Peronistas began tearing out the eyes on her posters...
Hardly anyone in Argentina expected that the transition from the military junta of General Alejandro Lanusse to the newly elected civilian government of Peronista President-elect Hector Campora would be peaceful. Last week trouble came, although not, perhaps, in a manner that many had expected. On a busy Buenos Aires street, an urban guerrilla from a Trotskyite group called the People's Revolutionary Army shot and killed Rear Admiral Hermes Quijada, former chief of the Armed Forces Joint General Staff...
More irksome to Lanusse than Perón's insults was a campaign slogan -"Campora in government, Perón in power"-being used by supporters of Hector Campora, the Peronista candidate for President. The government argued that the slogan violated the constitution, which states that the people do not govern except through elected representatives. On that ground, the junta filed suit in the National Electoral Court demanding that Peron's Justicialist Liberation Front, which had been given a good chance to win the election, be dissolved. If that happens, Peron will be left without a legal means...