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The Communists were bitterly disappointed. After Red votes swung the election to moderate Leftist Giovanni Gronchi in 1955, Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti cried: "When it comes to choosing a President, we are the ones who choose." Last week, after the Reds backed Saragat in a futile maneuver aimed at pulling...
The maneuver was necessary to bring the poll-tax amendment to a Senate vote; the actual bill was tied up in the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James O. Eastland. Holland's tactics stirred the brief wrath of Georgia's Richard Russell, leader of the fight...
In Damascus one morning last week, the Syrian army moved with smooth precision. Up to government buildings rolled Soviet-built armored cars. Troops sealed off the airport, the radio station, the homes of Cabinet ministers. Borders with neighboring countries were closed, and airplanes arriving from outside were waved away. "It...
Through the Perón years, Frondizi was in open opposition, addressing furtive knots of anti-Perónistas in Buenos Aires streets. But his strength lay in mastery of political maneuver within the Radical Party. In 1956, after Pern fell, Frondizi split the party into two nearly equal segments...
Classic Pattern. Hoping to win Per&243;nista support for his program, Frondizi pushed through a law designed to give amnesty to Per&243;nistas for all but common crimes, then returned their control of Argentina's powerful labor unions. The reaction of the bitterly anti-Per&243;n...