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...fatherly, sometimes Big Brotherly dictator. Elected President in 1950 in a one-candidate race, Odria said recently that he intended to step down at the end of his six-year term, handing his office over to a constitutionally elected successor. Many of his countrymen doubted whether the strongman, only 57, really meant it, but last week, in a published interview with touring New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, Odria repeated his intention with notable firmness. He gave two reasons for wanting to hand over power, putting them, perhaps unintentionally, in an ironical order: "In the first place...
This leaves Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi himself in the role of Iran's next strongman. He did not even consult the Majlis (Parliament) before appointing his new Premier, as he is expected...
...march beyond the Church of Monserrat was a crossing of the Rubicon in the struggle between the uneasy strongman and the church. As recently as a few weeks ago, a closed-door meeting between Perón and the Archbishop of Buenos Aires could touch off widespread rumors of a truce. Last week any lingering wisps of hope for a peace evaporated. Perón called his envoy to the Vatican home for "consultations," and the Vatican reciprocated by summoning its apostolic nuncio to Rome for "consultations." The official Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, labeled Perón's government...
Like many another Latin American strongman, Perón has found his university students distressingly prejudiced in favor of liberty. Despite the thoroughgoing Peronization of university faculties, most of the students remain notably unenthusiastic about Perón, which makes his watchful cops highly suspicious of them. Last October the police banned a routine social gathering of University of Buenos Aires engineering students, thereby touching off a student strike that spread to Argentina's other universities. Upshot: 250-odd student leaders landed in jail. Perón & Co. let 150 of them out during February and March, hinted that...
...Catholic prelates: "To those who have lost their tenure, their positions, their reputations or their resources, and to those who endured imprisonment without being convicted of any crime, goes our voice of comfort and encouragement." For eight years after he became President of 93%-Catholic Argentina in 1946, Strongman Juan Peron got along well enough with the clergy. The Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello, publicly prayed for "most copious blessings from Heaven" on the President. But last year the opposition-hating strongman began worrying about clerical influence in organizations of workers, professionals and students, and even more...