[SANITIZED]WEEKLY SUMMARY APRIL 18, 1975 - 1975/04/18

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03003258
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 30
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: April 18, 1975

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The WEEKLY SUMMARY, issued every Friday morning by the
Office of Current Intelligence, reports and analyzes significant
developments of the week through noon on Thursday. It fre-
quentiy includes material coordinated with or prepared by the
Office of Economic Research, the Office of Strategic
Research, the Office of Geographic and Cartographic
Research, and the Directorate of Science and Technology.
Topics requiring more comprehensive treatment and
therefore published separately as Special Reports are listed
in the contents.
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CONTENTS (April 18, 1975)
19 Argentina: Modest Victory
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ARGENTINA: MODEST VICTORY
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The government of President maria Estela
de Peron won a modest victory when it captured
the governorship of Misiones Province in an elec-
tion on April 13. It was the first test at the polls
since Juan Peron's election in September 1973.
The most encouraging sign for Mrs. Peron's
supporters was the severe defeat suffered by a
splinter left-wing Peronist party backed by the
Montonero guerrillas. Extreme leftist Peronists
will, however, point to the drubbing at the polls
as justification for their campaign of violence.
The strong showing of the centrist opposi-
tion Radical Party�which finished a close
second�probably owed much to a substantial
protest vote against the government's policies
and a backlash against massive vote-buying by
Social Welfare Minister Lopez Rega, who bla-
tantly handed out millions of pesos in "subsi-
dies" prior to the balloting. Radical gains will
enhance the position of party leader Balbin,
who has been under fire from within his party
for not taking a harder line against the govern-
ment.
The outcome of the Misiones vote may
well serve temporarily to restrain conservative
critics of Lopez Rega within the Peronist labor
movement and the military. Some of them will
grudgingly admit that the strategy of the Presi-
dent's chief adviser worked to contain the chal-
lenge from the dissident Peronist left even if it
did so at the expense of losing votes to the
Radicals.
There is at least a fair chance that the
government success will strengthen the hand of
moderates such as Interior Minister Rocamora,
who have encouraged the President to adopt a
more conciliatory approach in dealing with
other political parties. Rocamora, a staunch ad-
vocate of close cooperation with opposition
party leaders, has urged Mrs. Peron to hold
elections in provinces that have been put under
direct central government control. There is no
assurance, however, that voices of moderation
will be heeded by Mrs. Peron as long as Lopez
Rega retains his dominant influence.
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