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...cryptic commentary on current conditions in Argentina may lie in the fact that within a few hours of arrival I have been offered by TIME-starved residents here $10 each for my two recent back issues of TIME-overlooked by customs inspectors. A "freedom-loving," double-talking Peronista regime has made sure that all copies destined for the country "just haven't arrived." All because you printed the truth...
Concessions. But Perón got back his grip only at the cost of at least one implicit concession. His knockdown battle with the church became a wary standoff, not even mentioned in his speech. Said Hugo di Pietro, Peronista labor boss: "This is a time for reconciliation. There will be no church issue." Though most priests still wore cautious mufti in the streets (Argentines vied in trying to spot them by their black socks and clumsily knotted neckties), some ventured boldly out in cassocks. Most of the arrested priests were hastily freed. The government sent policemen to guard churches...
Halting before the Congressional Palace, the crowd watched as leaders raised a blue-and-white Argentine flag and a yellow-and-white Vatican flag on the building's flagpole. Several agile demonstrators clambered up the scaffolding of a huge Peronista Party billboard and draped it with the Argentine and Vatican colors...
Announced Interior Minister Angel Gabriel Borlenghi: "The prelates had erred in assuming that a procession could be held on Saturday after permission had been given for Corpus Christi Day proper." On Saturday, the Peronista press and radio announced that the ceremonies had been called off. The government drastically slowed down service on streetcar, bus and subway lines leading toward the Plaza de Mayo, but the Catholics came anyway, some of them walking miles from their homes in the suburbs...
...dozen priests were arrested, making a total of three dozen jailed since the conflict broke out last October. The Argentine Senate passed a bill to end the property-tax exemptions of churches, parochial schools and other denominational institutions. Both houses voted to abolish religious instruction in public schools. The Peronista legislators were unanimous, but the minuscule Radical Party minority in the Chamber (the Senate is 100% Peronista) voted against the measure...