Volume 20, July, 1974 Argentina, Page 26621
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Jul 1974 - Demonstrations of Support for General Perón. - Election of President of Senate.
General Juan Domingo Perón, the President of Argentina, died on July 1 at the age of 78 and was succeeded by his wife, hitherto Vice-President. He had not appeared in public since mid-June and had reportedly been suffering from influenza, but an official medical bulletin issued on June 80 stated that a bronchial infection had revived an old circulatory complaint; the President was said to be undergoing medical treatment and had been ordered to rest completely. However, on July 1, after medical bulletins throughout the day had announced increasing deterioration, news was finally given of the President's death of heart failure at 1.15 p.m. Troops had already been moved to strategic points in Buenos Aires, machine-gun emplacements being set up around the presidential palace.
Sra. Isabel Martinez de Perón had already on June 29 assumed the presidency ad interim at the request of her ...

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