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fkimv■itm* .'T?•V*Feminists Get Good Results During South America TourBUENOS AIRES (AP) -1‘m his companion, colleague, adviser, wife, and sometimes his sister and his mother,” said Isabel Peron of her 73-year-old husband, President Juan D Peron.Latin America’s first woman vice president was speaking to a group of American feminists “There’s no conflict in my dual role, because I know’ my husband well. I can get both jobs done,being his w ife and the vice president of Argentina,” she added THE TOUR of 20 American women was organized by Phyllis Sanders, a native Argentinian and now a New York Radio announcer. The women and one husband traveled to Colombia. Ar-entina, Peru and Ecuador or three weeks, watching women cope in what many consider male-dominated nations.“We never anticipated such a good reception,” said Laurel Jizba, 24, a member of the National Organization for Women and a Latin American manuscript librarian at the University of Indiana in Bloomington THE MAJOR reward for Mrs. Sanders and for Lisa Sergio, of Washington, another radio announcer, was a half hour’s chat with Isa-oel Peron in a living room of the pink house where Isabel and her president-husbandwork.Peron and his third wife took office Oct 11.“She sees herself in an important role, especially fdr women,” Mrs. Sanders said in an interview Monday. “She’s petite, well-dressed — you might even say chic — and comes across very warmly in a small group.‘‘I ASKED her if she felt Argentines voted for her in the last elections as a person oraswifeof Gen. Peron,” Mrs. Sanders said.“Isabel replied: ‘It is the general whom the peopleknow and honorand I believe the heavy vote was because of the Peron-Peron ticket.i« «Yet I think the overu'helming vote of women was an expression of an encouraging feeling that there was going to be a woman in office. I have to earn the confidence andrespect of the people now ” ’WHEN ASKED what would happen if her husband would not be able tocarry out his term of office, Mrs. Sanders said Isabel replied:“Of course when the president is out of the country, I would be the acting president. In other events, I would do whatever the country and the circumstances asked of me.”For the present, Isabel’s major work is reviving the Eva Peron Foundation, a charitable organizationnamed for Peron’s second wife. She intends to make it a government agency.INSTEAD OF visiting the usual tourist sights, the feminists talked with Peron-ist women congressmen,chatted with Argentine novelist Marta Lynch in a Buenos Aires coffee shop and compared notes with fellow feminists wherever they could find them.Some of the women acted as guides for the rest. Mrs. Sanders speaks fluent Spanish and has spent 22 years in Latin America. Dr. Sandra Thomas.of St. Louis, Mo., recently completed a doctoral sociology thesis entitled “The Women in Chile.RANGING IN age from 20 to 70, fne group includeda nun — Sister Mary Ann Guthrie and two companions, from Memphis, Tenn,; Sara J. WTiite, a credit analyst from Philadelphia; Sophie Davis and her husband, members of the “Grey Panthers senior citizens club in Philadelphia; Ellen Roberts, a leader in the Black Women feminists organization of New York City, and Thelma Babbitt of Hanover, N.H., an activist in the Sierra Club.Couicials w show i resul Bosqult;natureSte1Bosqu ture F sentedbnefii and R Mike them them made tional Arts, iwith 1
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Thu, Nov 15, 1973
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