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...door to odious comparisons between the impressive total he chalked up in July and an almost certainly less impressive total last week. He could not back Balbin, who was likely to carry on the anti-Perón policies of Provisional President Pedro Aramburu. Frondizi, who openly wooed Peronista votes, was the only possible choice...
...keep fhe threatened 48-hour walkout within bounds, he alerted 50,000 troops and policemen, more than were called out for last month's 24-hour stoppage (TIME, Oct. 7). He warned workers in advance that strikers could legally be fired, enlisted the support of 40 non-Peronista unions to denounce the strike as nothing more than a political maneuver...
...Dictator Juan Perón's sidekicks anywhere outside an Argentine prison. There was Perón's Chamber of Deputies President Hóctor Cámpora; José Gregorio Espejo, once head of the General Confederation of Labor; John William Cooke, last boss of the Peronista Party; and Pedro Andrés Gomiz, former director of the nationalized Argentine oil industry. But it was two others who were most remembered back in Argentina. One was boyishly handsome Guillermo Patricio Kelly, top bullyboy of Perón's street-fighting Alianza greyshirts. The other was Jorge...
Chilean authorities promptly arrested Warden Salvador Mejias, a friendly fellow who was surprised a few months ago sharing a convivial meal with his Peronista prisoners. Watches were set on all roads and airfields, but Argentine officials were not hopeful. Said one gloomily: "Jorge's money can buy anything...
Stumbling Ahead. At the constituent assembly the granite will was none too evident. Instead of settling down to work on the constitutional reforms-mostly curbs on the executive power, designed to prevent another Perón-the delegates erupted in squabbles. The Intransigent Radicals, hot after the Peronista vote, provided a casebook example of the demagoguery that Aramburu deplored by denouncing the assembly's legality. The chairman clamped down on the tirade, and the 77-man Intransigent bloc stormed out of the hall. And the 75-man bloc of the People's Radicals were too split among themselves...