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...tycoon who pyramided his father's multimillion-dollar holdings by establishing Brazil's first movie, record and air-conditioning companies, added a network of 22 radio stations, 250 cold storage plants, and a major bauxite development-all on top of a vast coffee empire; of hepatitis; in Rio de Janeiro...
...with only one condition: the ousted South American strongman was not to engage in politics. Peron plunged forthwith into a career of remote-control intrigue that reached a ludicrous anticlimax this month when a long-heralded attempt to return home ended in his being sent back to Spain from Rio. Last week Franco decreed that the Argentine would either have to sign a pledge within 30 days forswearing political activity or leave Spain...
...pulled up tightly around his chin, the sportily dressed figure who took his place in the back seat was unmistakably Juan Perón, now 69. Secrecy and surprise were his watchwords-and his only hopes of success. When the Mercedes roared into Madrid Airport, Iberian Flight 991 to Rio was warming up on the takeoff strip. Shielded by a waiting cordon of police, Perón, Jorge Antonio and Delia Parodi scrambled aboard the DC-8, where six other Peronistas were waiting for them...
...news of the "Ceara solution" spread, other linha dura officers took it as a hunting license. They ousted the mayor of Niteroi, across the bay from Rio, leveled charges of graft against the presidents of Brazil's Senate and Chamber of Deputies and the governor of prosperous Sao Paulo state. The man who drew the most fire was Mauro Borges, 44, governor of the central farmland state of Goias. He was charged with outright subversion. According to the military, Borges maintained a close link with top Brazilian Communists and has been receiving "bulky" sums of money from Cuba...
...acre land for $2 to $10 an acre. Now it appears that he and anyone else the U.S. wants may be coming home. Last week, after 17 years of formal negotiation, the U.S. and Brazil exchanged extradition agreements, effective Dec. 17. Says a U.S. embassy official in Rio: "Any criminal who flees to Brazil would be plain stupid...