When a Buenos Aires theater staged the première last week of a new Argentine movie called Barbara Atómica (rough translation: Hot-Stuff Barbara), the Catholic Action youth movement stepped out to show its disapproval. Reason: some of the mambo dancers in the movie were virtually unclad. Throwing stink bombs and shooting off firecrackers, the Catholic Action members started a rowdy uproar in the theater that ended with eleven injured, 92 arrested.
With a sure instinct, Juan Perón immediately turned the demonstration into anti-U.S. propaganda. After two days in jail, the offenders were brought into the office of Minister of Interior Angel...
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