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Equally irksome to the military was the gathering momentum of the Peronistas, the 3,000,000 diehard followers of Juan PerÓn who, through their strikes, demonstrations and exorbitant pay demands, have helped trigger the overthrow of three of the five Presidents (including Illia) who followed the deposed dictator. Under Illia, the Peronistas won 61 of Congress' 238 seats, triumphed in two of the last four provincial elections, and were an odds-on favorite to win the key provincial elections in Buenos Aires next March...
...dark side. Even the lightest of his books is pervaded with that gloomy conviction. He disapproved of his century, his ambitions and himself. In 1866, when he was 31 and a relatively obscure journalist in San Francisco, he put a pistol to his head but could not pull the trigger. "Many times I have been sorry I did not succeed," he said, "but I was never ashamed of having tried...
...Bosch, he said that he would stay out of the government but would not slip back into exile as had been rumored. If he joined the government or left the country, he feared that he would lose control of the young, trigger-happy leftists in his party and "leave the streets to someone else." Right now, he said, it was all he could do to keep them from declaring another war against the Bosch-hating military...
...tossing out of the ballots, however, could trigger court action against the University. Francis C. Powers '41, who printed and mailed hundreds of the ballots to members of his class, said yesterday he is willing to go to the U.S. Supreme Court to see that his vote -- and hence all the others -- are counted...
...back. Once again, Castro accused the U.S. of taking potshots at innocent Cubans. Then, lashing out at the "uncontrolled bandits" and "sons of bitches" to the north, he accused Washington of planning an invasion. For his part, Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned that any further border incidents could trigger "grave and regrettable consequences...