Eight months ago, Radical Party Leader Ricardo Balbin was arrested by Peronista police on charges of being "disrespectful" to the President of the Republic. In Peronista eyes, the 46-year-old lawyer had added injury to insult when he dared run for governor of Buenos Aires Province against a Perón-backed candidate. After his arrest, Balbin boldly insisted on a trial, but one embarrassed judge after another managed to get the ticklish case off his docket; meanwhile, Balbin was shunted from jail to jail. Finally, an obscure La
Plata judge accepted it. Last week he handed down a verdict,* sentenced Balbin to five...
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