ARGENTINA: Isabel Begins

"What was good for General Perón will be good for me. Neither at home nor abroad will the national line vary so much as a whit." Thus did Isabel Perón, 43, open her first formal Cabinet meeting in Government House last week, one week after the death of her husband and predecessor. To emphasize her plea of no change, she confirmed as her private secretary Conservative José López Rega, who had held the same position under her husband and is also Minister of Social Welfare. Moments later she reaffirmed Perón's economic policy,...

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