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...pursuit of this goal, Ongania began to solicit the support of the labor unions, many of which are still dominated by the totalitarian principles of the long-deposed Juan Peron. Ongania's appeal to the unions and entrepreneurs angered the army generals, who consider themselves the guardians of Argentina's welfare. At a meeting last month the generals barraged the President with complaints about his dictatorial designs. When one young general complained of a "lack of dialogue," Ongania replied, "But we are having a dialogue now." "We are not," snapped the general. "You are lecturing us, and besides...
...censorship and complain that Argentines suffered from "an excess of freedom." The final blow may well have been the loss of prestige that Ongania suffered by the kidnaping two weeks ago of a former President, Lieut. General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, who ruled the country for 2½ years following Peron's ouster. The kidnapers claimed to be Peronistas avenging the execution of 27 of their compatriots who were executed during Aramburu's period in office. Some observers theorize, on the other hand, that the culprits could have been either ultra-right militarists or leftist revolutionaries seeking to prevent...
...terrorists called themselves the "Juan Jose Valle Command," in memory of the Peronist general who led the abortive 1956 coup. But their actual identity and political orientation remained in doubt. Peronist leaders hotly denied involvement, and from his exile in Madrid, 74-year-old Juan Peron warned that the killing of Aramburu could plunge Argentina into civil war, which is exactly what the terrorists seemed to want. Taking advantage of the disorder, 6,000 workers in Cordoba seized eight automobile plants to dramatize their demands for higher wages. In Buenos Aires, Dictator Ongania dramatically reinstated the death penalty -banned since...
Borges has never been a political figure, but he deplored the Nazi influence in his country during World War II. By 1946, his satiric comments on the pro-Fascist Argentine government and the accession of Juan Peron to power brought him a demotion from a state job as librarian to the post of chicken inspector in Buenos Aires. Today, at home, the aging poet's days are full of calm work and study. Lately he has received special assistance from a young American, Norman de Giovanni, who is translating all Borges' writing into English...
WITH deep-rooted memories of Argentina under Peron (who tried to humiliate Borges--then a librarian--by making him a provincial poultry inspector) Borges has a great love for the United States. "After all," he recalls, "it came to me in the best way, through literature--Mark Twain, Hawthorne, Melville. . . . What I find very admirable is that people here have a keen sense of right and wrong...