Thursdoy, July 26, 1973 THE SUMMER DAILY Page Nine Thursday, July 26, 1973 THE SUMMER DAILY Page Nine BUENO - Juan P doesn't le through t conga line But, aft he is still headed fo tacular c< times - of Argent HE PRO prised ab Peron I million At love him r Peron's office wer bombs dr kiling hun May r. E The Godfather returns to power S AIRES, Argentina (A) His hold over labor survived. and quick, barbed, and p r o- blend of right-wing Catholic intel- And in 1954, when the clergy 'eron, at 77 pushing 78, Leftist youths chose Peronism found. lectuals, radical youths, d a y opposed his plans to organize ad laughing teen-agers as a unifying banner against His thick hair is black and his laborers and young toughs who Peronist youths corps, he fought own in motor scooter military rule. shoulders are broad. Ie chain- beat up anti-Peronists and Jews. the Roman Catholic Church. s anymore. As the economy slipped and smokes black cigarettes as he A WEEK AFTER leaving pri- Laws legalized divorce and pro- ter 18 years in exile, nothing seemed to be working, always did, drinking as moder- son, Peron married Maria Eva stitution and the split grew wider. Peron and apparently Gen. Alejandro Lanusse, t h e n ately as before and eating care- .Dufrte, a beautiful if not over- The Church, with heavy intlu- r one of the most spec- president, ordered elections for fully but well. He's a walker and ly successful actress with a back- ence in the military, lent i t s omebacks of modern March 1973. He ruled that any- talker. ground of poverty. Peron's first weight to the opposition. The, his return as president one out of the country on August Peron's power base was bnitt wife had died. first coup failed, and mobs set tina. 25 - such as Peron - couldn't up slowly and thoroughly, he was Evita, as she was soon called, at least six churches on fire. The BABLY isn't even sur- run. the poor man's champion, and was quickly as popular as Peron. second coup, months later, sic- out it. Then, to nail down Peronism then the conservative's friend and Humble families sometimes plac- ceeded. s the godfather to 24 once and for all, Lanusse declar- finally a superstar heading an ed lighted candles next to her FOR THE MILLIONS who re- rgentines, whether they ed that Peron was free to visit emperor-sized personality ^lut. portraits as they would do for a joiced to see him go, there were or hate him. Argentina if he had the .courage. HIS RISE started in 1943 after saint. countless others who knew they previous nine years in Lanusse guessed wrong. he returned from two years in She died of cancer in 1952, would miss him. u eddby foMussolini's Italy on an Argentine - and Argentine walls still carry ' If many repeated with distaste e cng m side his dorce PERON NOT ONLY showed up army mission studying how to ap- fresh posters quoting her words, the stories of his weakness for pdreds in the Plaza de for a 28-day visit, .but he also ply Alpine infantry tactics to the "I will return, dead or alive." teen-aged schoolgirls, athers den th e a z eg huddled continuously in smoke- Andes. PERON'S government set out seemed to hold a strange admira- IVa L. L 1 " Ql uv l, and he hung on a few months longer. FINALLY FOUR DAYS of fight- ing in September 1955 forced Peron to hurry onto a Paraguay- an gunboat tied up for repairs. He escaped with his life, and, some say, millions of dollars in a private fortune. He first went to Panama,tand then to Venezuela and the Do- minican Republic before settling down in Spain in 1960. A string of military and civil- ian governments tried hard to de-Peronize the country. But for Argentina a Peron gone was hardly a Peron forgotten. fiiled rooms witn nis organization in Buenos Aires and with h i s former political opponents. Peron went back to Spain, but when electionscame, a 64-year- old dentist named Hector Cam- pora won with a slogan: "Cam- pora to government, Peron to power." Campora resigned this month paving the way for Permo to be- come president again in new elections. UP CLOSE IT'S easy t see how he does it. Fatherly, affable, burly and handsome, Peron ex- udes natural charm like an idol of the silent screen. His jokes Peron's power base was built up slowly and thoroughly, he was the poor man's champion, and then the conservative's friend and finally a superstar heading an emperor-sized personality cult. N!" . "." fY.' /f!%.. 1J.. :IJY'1: 5 ,Y. . f"}" r5 /. .: ..- !. 54 Or.. . re :"}:ti ....z.......v4 Y4. 1.:";:}". Y}. Millions expected to honor Eva Peron BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (P) -Peronists by the thousands are expected to pay homage today to Eva Peron who died of cancer 21 years ago at the peak of an incredible rags-to-riches career. It will be the first time they will be allowed to do so openly and on such a large scale since the ouster of her husband Juan Peron in a military coup in 1955. AMONG THOSE honoring her memory will be Peron himself, who at 77 once again stands on the threshold of the presidency he held with a firm group from 1946 until the military forced him into exile abroad. He is scheduled to go to City Council, where Eva first estab- lished the Eva Peron Charity Foundation, and there receive an Argentine flag that admirers had spirited away from her office after the coup. Other ceremonies were planned throughout the country, includ- ing a Roman aCtholic Mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral at- tended by ProvisionalPresident Raid Lastiri and his Cabinet. AT 8:25 P.M. - the moment Eva died at the age of 33-the government television channel will begin showing a film of her life. And at the same time a memorial service will open at the headquarters of the General La- bor Confederation where her body had lain in state until it was secretly removed after the coup and buried in a cemetery at Milan, Italy. A Mass also will be held in Madrid, Spain, where her body is now but at an undisclosed site. Many believe it is still in the mansion that Peron lived in in Spain before returning here June 20 after nearly 18 years in exile. Others say it is in a small chapel near the Madrid home. But only Peron and high Spanish govern- ment officials know. UNTIL NOW public homages to Evita-as she was affection- ately known-were forbidden. Last year, with the military junta still in power, two police- men and a youth were killed and a half dozen other firemen and policemen were wounded during gunfights or by bomb blasts in an angry commemora- tion of her death. Now, flags are flying and walls are plastered with posters show- ing Eva smiling on the masses, her blonde hair back on a bun. Labels read, "I will return, dead or alive.' SLOGANS, SPRAY painted by youths who were not even born when Eva died, reflect the mys- tical power her image still has. "Evita lives," they say. "Evita is with us," and "Evita, our spiritual leader." And they are the same youths that chant, "We feel it, we feel it, Evita is present," at the ral- lies that are common since he Peronists regained p o w e r in elections last March. AT THE TIME of his wife's death, Peron asked the Vatican to declare her a martyr. The re- quest was refused but to her followers among the poor and the middle class she became a saint anyway. They placed portraits of her in their homes and burned candles beside them. A colonel then, Peron joined the GOU United Officers Group, a secret society of nationalist of- - ficers which was known to be sympathetic to the Nazis and the Fascists. The group overthrew Ramon Castillo's conservative govern- ment. Peron, to the amusement of brother officers who thought more of him, asked only to be Secretary of Labor. HIS COLLEAGUES soon saw why. Pay raises and labor laws "dig- nified the worker," as Peron put it, and millions of Argentines were suddenly eating steak and going to the theater. By late 1945, he was virtual ruler under a figurehead presi- dent. But liberal officers remov- ed him as vice president a n d threw him in prison on an island in the River Plate. BUT PERON'S people - t h e "shirtless ones" who are still on his side 28 years later - came to the rescue. A general strike paralyzed the country, an d workers poured out for a rally at government house. Months later, on Feb. 24, 1946, Peron was elected president. His electors were a strawige to develop nationalism. It took over some foreign holdings. Lo- cal manufacturing was encour- aged, changing the traditional cattle, wool and wheat economy. There was inflation but, also prosperity, along with n e w schools, hospitals, middle class resorts and public projects. Peron jailed dissidents and cracked down on the press. PERON WAS re-elected in 1952, and he launched even more deeply into his personal brand of government. He grew tougher with opponents. Schoolbooks car- ried sentences like, "I love Per- on." tion that he could - if the stories were true - get away with it. The 1973 Peron is a little chang- ed, but not much. His third wife, Isabelita, was a dancer in Pan- ama and now she intends to take over Eva's work among the por. HE STILL KEEPS followers a little confused and off balance, relying on advisers but leaving no question about who is Peron. 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