Word: isabelita
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...Maid of Orleans and Elizabeth I down to modern times, women leaders have left their mark. The 1970s alone have seen no fewer than four female heads of state: Israel's Golda Meir, India's Indira Gandhi, Sri Lanka's Sirimavo Bandaranaike and Argentina's Isabelita Perón, who took over the presidency last week on the death of her husband...
Evita's successor as the President's wife, Isabel, 43 (see box page 75), acted as principal mourner?and as Vice President, she succeeded Perón in office. Isabelita had been in Europe on an official tour when Perón was taken ill. She flew home hurriedly after receiving reports of his declining health. In a weekend address to the nation, she announced that until he recovered she was temporarily assuming his duties as "Chief Magistrate of the nation." Two days later, Isabelita returned to television and radio to inform the nation that "a real apostle of peace and union...
...because she is a woman, although as an Argentine I do think Presidents should be men?but because she has no education." Even some who accepted Isabelita as Juan Perón's heir and who applauded the dignity with which she faced a difficult period last week questioned her ability to stand up to the bewildering array of problems facing Argentina...
...person already suspected of trying to become the power behind the throne is Minister of Social Welfare José López Rega, 54, who was Perón's private secretary and astrologer in exile. López Rega stood prominently behind Isabelita each time she addressed the nation on television last week, and except for her, he was the only Cabinet member to make a TV speech after Perón's death. Radical leftist Peronists despise the ultra-conservative López Rega and have threatened to assassinate him. Last week, in a warning aimed at him, the leader of the radical leftist...
...shade of fiery Eva Peron must have winced. Touring Europe on behalf of her ailing husband, Argentina's President Juan Peron, 78, Isabelita, 44, made it clear that she was not trying to usurp his role. In Rome, Eva's successor gave a 55-minute speech defining the feminine ideal with a kicker worthy of Gertrude Stein: "Women have to be and feel no more than what they are and no less than what they must...