Word: regas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brittle, fragile woman, she isolated herself, governing through a small clique of inept and often corrupt advisers. Among them was Astrologer-Mystic José López Rega, a kind of Pampas Rasputin whose power antagonized the military and whose conservative economic ideas upset labor. After popular demonstrations forced López Rega to quit last July, Isabel became a near recluse. At her infrequent public appearances, she was visibly nervous, often tearful and sometimes nearly hysterical. Last fall, claiming failing health, she took a leave to retreat to the hills of Córdoba to regain her strength. Many...
...obscure Buenos Aires weekly called Lea. In the same issue, the only one ever published, were editorial attacks against several Argentines who had recently incurred the displeasure of either President Isabel Perón or her hated adviser, former Social Welfare Minister José López Rega. A check of the address given on Lea's title page revealed no building; near by, however, was a publishing house operated by the Argentine Ministry of Social Welfare...
...past, responsibility for burnt, bullet-ridden corpses like those found near Buenos Aires has been claimed by the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance, a right-wing terrorist group publicly linked to José López Rega. A working relationship would well serve the mutual interests of DINA and the A. A. A. DINA has a long list of names for which it needs bodies and the A.A.A. has bodies for which it needs names. DINA, it is thought, was particularly interested in whittling down its long list of missing persons before the arrival of a delegation from the U.N. Human...
Economic Ruin. Whether or not Mrs. Perón requests a leave, it was apparent that she had already lost much of her power. She staked her prestige -and that of Lopez Rega-on a rollback of union wage claims, but was beaten last month when labor wrested UP, increases of up to 145% (TIME, June 23). That defeat spelled the end for the trusted coterie of advisers on whom she had relied since coming to power...
Following López Rega into retirement last week were two other members of her Cabinet, Economy Minister Celestino Rodrigo and newly installed Social Welfare Minister Carlos Villone. In addition, López Rega's son-in-law, Raul Lastiri, resigned as president of the Chamber of Deputies...