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Instead of uniting the wildly disparate factions that make up the Perónist movement, el Lider's return seems only to have ignited leftist and rightist tempers within the party. Last week the rival groups were bitterly accusing each other of inciting the turmoil that accompanied the homecoming...
...minimize the violence that provoked the parliamentary vote against him, he blamed most of it on leftists and the rest on an anti-M.S.I. conspiracy on the part of the government: "I have also accused the Ministry of the Interior itself of having organized the violence of those rightist groups, organized them against...
...situation deteriorated, Cámpora's guide and mentor, Juan Perón, issued a statement from Madrid rebuking both rightist "gorillas" and leftist "Trotskyites" for the violence. The ERP responded by calling on both Perónists and non-Perónists to "fight steadfastly for the socialist revolution" and accused the new government of "respectfully accepting a subordinate and capitalist system...
...France, as elsewhere, polls are intriguing but uncertain barometers. Most observers attributed the rise in support for the rightist and centrist parties to the concerted political scare strategy of the Gaullists. Blithely ignoring a constitutional provision that France's President is above partisan politics, Georges Pompidou, in a television interview, spearheaded a Gaullist campaign designed to convince French voters that a leftist victory would mean chaos at best, a Communist takeover at worst. To which Gaullist Premier Pierre Messmer added a prediction that it would bring about "a demolition of the Fifth Republic...
...view of the past. If it appears, as Nixon had the gall to assert in January, that our involvement in the war was "one of the most selfless enterprises in the history of nations," it is because Hanoi and the PRG have kept the U.S. from stablizing an illegitimate rightist regime in the South. America has gained nothing, while the PRG has gained official recognition as a legitimate administration with a right to maintain armed forces on its territory, the Vietnamese have gained the departure of at least America's ground troops, and Hanoi has entered into a Council...