ARGENTINA: Rising Tension

Is Juan Peron, from exile in tolerant Panama, running a campaign of sabotage and harassment against the revolutionary government that threw him out? Last week, after at least seven brush-fire in surrections in 24 days, many Argentines were beginning to think so.

In Chaco Province, bordering on Paraguay, ten Peronista politicos were arrested for "disturbing law and order." In the central province of San Luis 27 noncommissioned officers routed out draftees for unscheduled "night maneuvers" that the government said were part of a plot with links to other provincial garrisons. Using information...

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