ARGENTINA: God Will Provide

"Mrs. Perón is in very good health, just like Argentina." That was the sanguine remark of Josó López Rega, Argentina's star-gazing gray eminence, as he arrived last week in Madrid, supposedly to become a special ambassador from Buenos Aires in Europe. In fact, his comment was inaccurate in almost every respect.

López Rega had just been forced to resign as Minister of Social Welfare and personal secretary to President Isabel Perón—the positions that had made him the most powerful man in Argentina. Mrs. Perón, who has erratically governed the country since the death...

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