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...occupation and never restored. Constant work stoppages have stoked to white heat the anger of Japanese commuters, probably the world's most poorly served travelers. Because scheduled runs are inadequate and cars too small for transportation needs, the line has the familiar permanent "shovers" at busy stations to ram passengers into suffocatingly close-packed trains. Last spring, during a labor slowdown, riders finally exploded, attacked rail workers, rampaged through stations and caused damages of more than $30 million...
BRIEFLY...Irish folk enthusiasts can hear The Battering Ram, a trio of traditional folk artists playing at the First Congregational Church Fri. Oct. 12 at 8 p.m...Paul's Mall and the Jazz Workshop are serving up an all-star lineup this week and next: this week, Bobby Blue Bland and Freddy Hubbard, respectively; starting Tues. Oct. 16, Miles Davis at the Mall and Willie Dixon at the Workshop...Steve Goodman, a fine folksinger and songwriter, is playing Tufts on Wed. Oct. 17. Call 492-7679 for details. P.M.S...
...Mexico, former Chilean Ambassador Hugo Vigorena Ramírez, a career diplomat who resigned his post in Mexico City after the coup, claimed to have seen documents outlining what he called the "CIA's war against Allende." The alleged plan, code-named Centaur, was said to involve economic and psychological subversion of the Allende government, including such dirty tricks as introducing counterfeit money and upsetting the rhythm of crops. "The CIA plan prepared for the coup," insisted Vigorena. "It was a systematic campaign of torpedoing the government...
Back in Buenos Aires, Peron joined the G.O.U. (Group of United Officers), a cabal of extreme-right-wing colonels who shared his belief that Argentina was destined to become the Germany of Latin America. In 1943 they staged a coup against the bumbling government of Ramón Castillo (who, ironically, was pro-Nazi himself). Perón backed the naming of General Pedro Ramírez as a figurehead replacement. For himself, he cannily took the directorship of the moribund Department of Labor. Turning it into the government's most active branch, Perón used the department...
...power grew (especially after he engineered the replacement of Ramírez in 1944 with another general, Edelmiro Farrell), Perón's fellow officers cooled toward him. His romance with Maria Eva Duarte, then a third-rate actress of questionable reputation, did not help matters. Perón was a widower when he met Evita in 1943. His first wife, Aurelia Tizón, had died of cancer in 1938. Perón's ungallant epitaph: "Poor thing, she always bored me." Evita never bored him, but her captivation of Perón angered his moralistic, status...