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...life of Juan Domingo Perón. There had been the usual trickle of callers in the afternoon and evening. At 8 p.m. the exiled dictator went to dinner with Isabelita, his pretty young wife, a Spanish police officer assigned to guard him. and a few Peronista visitors from Argentina. Later, as always, Perón went upstairs to watch television, which invariably occupies him until Spain's only channel goes off the air at 12:30 a.m. Instead, with The Untouchables turned up full blast inside, Perón suddenly embarked on a hugger-mugger exploit...
They have a sneaking suspicion that the present exercise is a devious scheme into which Perón has been drawn by his top lieutenant in Argentina-Augusto Timoteo Vandor, 41. Known as El Lobo, The Wolf, Vandor has already proved his cunning by shouldering aside old-line Peronista bosses for control of the Peronista organization. He believes in "Peronismo without Perón," and if Perón fails to return after setting such a specific deadline, his disappointed followers may finally write off their old hero. In that case, El Lobo would be in position to convert himself...
...Illia, of course, was badly embarrassed (Cordoba is his home town), and once again Argentina was shown to be a sorely divided nation lacking leadership. But De Gaulle was on the spot too, and there was no satisfactory way for him to get off it. Any wave to the Peronista crowd would be interpreted as support of anti-government forces, and he had no desire to make a formal anti-Perón statement. He did the best he could under the circumstances, retreated into the icy aloofness he has been striving to avoid. "The matter concerns them and them...
...almost a decade, 3,000,000 of Argentina's 21 million people have lived outside the country's normal political life. They are the Peronistas, long loyal to ex-Dictator Juan Domingo Peron, 69, and his promise to return to Argentina leading another revolution. Last week 17 Peronista leaders were back in Buenos Aires after a five-day conference with El Lider in Madrid. As always, Peron vowed to return. But not as a revolutionary this time. The aging strongman now sees himself as conciliator, who would stay only long enough-possibly two or three months-to help...
...Timoteo Vandor, 43, El Lider's new top lieutenant in Argentina. A onetime navy mechanic, Vandor drifted into the powerful, 275,000-member Metallurgical Workers Union in the early 1950s, quietly made his way up through the union hierarchy, and was soon reaching for control of the entire Peronista movement. His chief opponent was Andres Framini, 50, head of the 100,000 member Textile Workers Union and longtime power within the General Labor Command...