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...last dictator in South America sat in his ramshackle, century-old Asunción palace, weighed his chances of survival and decided last week that they lay in loosening his iron grip. After five years, poker-playing Lieut. General Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, 46, announced a turn toward democracy...
President Stroessner's press censorship is so tight that newspapers refuse to print obituaries unless they are first okayed by police. No public meetings are permitted; police recently forbade a wedding party planned by one oppositionist...
...chief threat to Stroessner is a colony of exiled Paraguayan oppositionists -a third of the population of 1,600,000 -most of whom live across the border in Argentina. In December they scared him enough to make him black out the palace, send troops to the frontier, get the Argentine government to impound two Beechcraft planes that seemed set to bomb Paraguay. In Buenos Aires, Paraguayan exiles announced that they were drawing up a list of "war criminals" to be executed "after the liberation...
...dictator's 23,000-man armed forces keep him in power, and the troops are not entirely happy. Younger officers are disgruntled because their careers are slowed by the superabundance of brass at the top; e.g., Paraguay's two-gunboat navy has seven admirals. Early this month Stroessner arrested several junior army officers and transferred others to a searing Chaco outpost. It may be lonely to be South America's last dictator, but Stroessner does not intend to be blown over by breezes from a distant Caribbean island...
...Pavelic, a fanatical Croat fascist, was named Poglavnik (leader) by Hitler, and ruled Croatia during the early days of the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia. Responsible for the extermination of 800,000 of his countrymen, Pavelic escaped to Argentina after the war, began working for Stroessner late last year...