Argentines showed some spunk last week. Strong Man Perón's renewed "state of siege" (TIME, Oct. 8), the retaliating strike by 30,000 students and police counterblows made Argentina look for a while like a country on the eve of a civil war.
At the University of La Plata, students turned 20 blocks in the center of town into a battlefield. They blacked out the area by breaking street lights, then tripped up mounted policemen with low-strung wires. Over an improvised radio station, engineering students broadcast denunciations of the military regime.
Then Perón hit back. Police...
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