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Lanusse immediately declared a state of emergency and imposed martial law on Buenos Aires and Argentina's five most populous provinces. He also insisted that Campora, who had been conferring with Juan Peron in Madrid about the new government that is to take office May 25, return home to deal with "the new crimes." Campora, who hitherto had studiously ignored the military's recommendations and instructions, could not refuse this time. "I shall return on the first plane," he cabled Lanusse...
...kidnapers are little better than bandits, but many of them claim to be acting either for socialism or for Peronism. President-elect Hector Campora, who was voted into power last month as the representative of the exiled Juan Peron, has asked the guerrillas to "grant us a truce" until after his government is installed May 25. There is little sign of that happening...
...places-Rumania. Actually, since he left Buenos Aires before Christmas-voluntarily this time -he has been doing more politicking than vacationing. Stopping in Rome before his flight to Rumania, he described members of the military junta of Argentine Strongman Alejandro Lanusse as "beasts." The junta promptly responded by barring Peron from Argentina until a civilian government is reestablished. He had planned to campaign this month for his hand-picked candidates in the March general elections...
...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 of regaining power in Argentina...
...situation, however, worries all other political parties; they fear a repetition of the last presidential election in 1963. At that time, Peron's supporters, threatened with annulment of their ballots, voted blanks, thereby allowing Arturo Illia to win the presidency with 27% of the vote. The bickering that followed led to the takeover by the military, which has ruled ever since...