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...into the sunset like a gaucho De Gaulle with his charisma and place in history as a statesman intact, the scene was not quite right. Perón had, in fact, been forced to return to Argentina by the adroit maneuvering of Argentina's current President and military strongman, Alejandro Lanusse...
Juan Peron, Argentina's onetime strongman, has said repeatedly that he would return to his homeland "when the people tell me the bollo [roll] is ready for the oven." Apparently the bollo is now ready. In Buenos Aires, Peron's top aide, Hector Compara, announced that el Lider would arrive in Argentina on Nov. 17, thus ending 17 years of exile abroad, most of it spent in princely isolation in Madrid...
...supporters, who could deliver up to 40% of the popular vote, have already purchased a $70,000 house in the posh Buenos Aires suburb of Olivos for their old leader, who turned 77 last month. The house is only eight blocks from the presidential villa of Argentina's current strongman (and Peron's archfoe), Alejandro Lanusse. Peronistas have also chartered a DC-8 from Alitalia to fly their leader home. Aboard will be his third wife Isabelita, 41, several aides, household servants and numerous bodyguards, but not Eva, his second wife, who died in 1952 and is considered a saint...
...Kennedy Airport last week, they did not look much different from other passengers. The men wore business suits; the women were dressed in slacks or saris. Most of them spoke fluent English. But they were very special travelers: 82 Asians who had been peremptorily ordered out of Uganda by Strongman Idi Amin Dada, even though they were all citizens. Suddenly made stateless, they constituted the first wave of a group of 1,000 refugees that the U.S. has agreed to accept...
...role as students may be, if anything, a handicap for the kind of opposition that will best hold Nixon's strongman tendencies in check. So long as our demonstrations can be brushed aside in citizen's minds with the tag of "cynical student rebellion," Nixon has little to worry about. Fortunately, his victory cannot destroy the work of public-interest lobbyists. Nor can it halt either the effects of grass-roots community organizing or the appeal of anti-administration campaigns focused on undisguisable conditions: inflation, racism, inequitable taxes, military overextension and waste, violations of civil liberties, poor housing, corporation influence...