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...rebels' demands and dismissed him. But Fautario's successor, Brigadier General Orlando Ramon Agosti, was unsympathetic to the rebels' second, more ambitious goal: that Argentina's military should remove Isabel Perón as President and replace her with General Jorge Rafael Videla, the wiry and astute commander of the army. President Perón, meanwhile, cheerfully entertained members of the Argentina legislature on the wide lawns of her residence in suburban Olivos...
Popular Contempt. The thwarted attack was a heartening triumph for the army. But it also pointed up the fact that the army has its hands full maintaining internal security without getting involved once again in Argentina's politics. Top army leaders like Commanding General Videla-who could have the presidency virtually for the asking-remember the long, bitter period of military control over Argentina's government from 1966 to 1973. The failure by the military to arrest Argentina's slide into chaos earned it such popular contempt that children even denied that their fathers were soldiers...
...General Videla's refusal to seize last week's opportunities to evict Isabel suggests that the military does not plan early action against her. Yet as election time draws nearer, there will be less and less popular support for any attempted coup. As a people, Argentines seem to want to wait out the crisis instead of facing it, as they have before. The departure of Isabel Perón would probably not change that mood, but more and more Argentines are convinced that it must come-in weeks if not days-if the nation is to preserve...
Chile's Hernán Videla Lira raised the menace of Red trade. "Moscow," he said, "has definitely stated that it is attempting the economic conquest of the free world and, in this way, imposition of its political conditions." But despite hundreds of proposed deals-including 176 to Brazil alone in 1958-Iron-and Bamboo-Curtain trade runs around only 1% of Latin America's total. And Communist loans to all of Latin America so far total only...
...seemed little more dangerous to Perón & Co. than the June 16 rebellion, snuffed out in six hours by inner-circle generals guarding their vested interests in the Perón regime. But this time rebel leaders showed spectacular dime-novel pluck and luck. While Generals Lonardi and Videla Balaguer were holding Córdoba, Vice Admiral Isaac Rojas daringly boarded the navy's flagship cruiser, locked the Peronista fleet commander in his cabin, invited the navy to join the rebellion. "I am not going to deceive anybody," messaged Rojas. "We are going to make a revolution...