The message from Madrid to Buenos Aires sounded confident enough: "I have irrevocably decided to return in the year 1964." Juan Domingo Perón, 69, Argentina's exiled dictator, has been talking about returning for nearly ten years, but never before had he set a definite time limit or made such extensive plans.
According to Perón's plan, Operación Retorno will take him before Dec. 31 to either Paraguay or Uruguay, where he will wait while an emissary goes on to Buenos Aires to announce the imminent return of El Líder. Then if Argentina's 3,000,000 Peronistas react as Perón hopes they will, the...