For a country that regards itself as the most European and most civilized nation in Latin America, Argentina is curiously inept at governing itself.
Last week, for the fifth time in 13 months, crisis and revolution overhung the rich land of beef and wheat. Once more, it was over the issue that did in President Arturo Frondizi a year ago: whether to restore limited political freedom to the Peronistas, the 3,000,000-man political organization left behind when Dictator Juan Perón was ousted in 1955. The violently anti-Peronista navy was at war with the somewhat less violently anti-Peronista army and air force,...
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