In the Paraguayan capital of Asunción, Juan Perón made the best of his second week of exile, playing with a pet anteater and smilingly shopping for a motorscooter, but the humiliations piled up:
¶The Paraguayan government, on Argentine urging, got ready to intern the ex-strongman on a ranch near orange-growing Villarrica, 90 miles from the Paraguayan-Argentine border. There Perón was to be confined to a small area and effectively silenced.
¶The Argentine government opened a public "Display of the Wealth of the ex-President" at Perón's former official residence in Buenos Aires. On exhibit: his 16 cars and 240 motorcycles and motor-scooters,...
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