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Article: First Lady Likes Eva Peron Comparison
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- January 8, 2002
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Title: First Lady Likes Eva Peron Comparison
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) _ Eyebrows were raised when Hilda Duhalde
stepped forward and signed her name next to her husband Eduardo's
on the official act making him Argentina's fifth president in two
weeks. No first lady had been so forward since Eva Peron, Argentines
muttered.
That was last Wednesday. By Monday, "Chiche," as Argentina's new first
lady is popularly known, was sitting in on cabinet meetings.
She is widely expected to steer the social policies that could make
or break a government that has come to power on the coattails of Argentina'
s worst economic slump and social unrest in ...