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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 16, 1963
Dr. Arturo Illia Is New Leader For Argentina
A white-haired, fragile-appearing country doctor has taken over the job of proving that Argentina can exist as a practicing democracy.
He is Dr. Arturo Umberto Illia, under whom Argentina returns last week to constitutional government. His chances for success will depend in large part upon the control he is able to exercise over Argentina's military factions on the one hand and the followers of former dictator Juan D. Peron on the other.
FROM THE VANTAGE point of a recent visit to Argentina, it is possible to predict that President Illia is in for some lumps at home and at least occasional clashes with the United States.
For the more than 10 years since Feron's fall, the two groups have kept the nation in an unceasing state of turmoil.
For one thing, he has been accused of being a rabid Argentine nationali t. He already has announced plans to annul the foreign oil contracts which helped to make Argentina self-supporting in oil.
These will be taken over by the state-owned YPF Oil Company.
He also has been accused of being pro-Communist. This he denies, but he believes Communists should have the right to organize and express their views.
The Venezuelan regime of President Romulo Betancourt held similar views in its earlier days and learned the hard way that Communist expression of views comes in violence and in unceasing conspiracy against existing order.
THE VIEW is certain to bring him into conflict with Argentina's military and suggests a leniency toward Castro's Cuba which will not endear him to the United States.
The enormity of his task at home is illustrated by the fact that Argentina's deficit this year will run to around $200 million, that economic development is at a standstill and that unemployment in a country of around 21 million now is estimated at around the million mark.
The two sorest spots in the Argentine economy are the state-owned railroads and the YPF Oil Company.
Among other things, Illia has promised "efficient administration" of the railroads, a task no Argentine leader before him has been able to accomplish.
A sociologist and an anthropologist last night discussed with members of Pi Sigma Alpha, honorary political science society, how field work in sociology and anthropology can affect political science.
Sociologist Tells Of Field Work
Charles Warriner, professor of sociology, who spent 1958 in the Philippines studying the Maranaos, a small Muslim group there, said the main problem he found was in the intolerance between the administrative groups there.
The administrative unit which the people of the Philippines are accustomed to is based on the family, Prof. Warriner said. Though the unit has a territory, relatives outside the territory may be members, he said.
This unit has come into conflict with a new unit based solely on territory which has been imposed by the national government of the Philippines, Prof. Warriner said.
"The question is." he said, "shall we insist upon the use of modern units even if they don't fit."
Felix Moos, assistant professor of anthropology, who specializes in Korea and Japan, said, the role of the anthropologist is that of a participant observer.
Prof. Moos said an anthropologist must look at a society's structure, its concepts of what the people ought to do, and how they view the world in order to make an analysis of the society.
An anthropologist most view a society in detail for a long time. Pref. Moos said, "Long term viewing allows the anthropologist to look from the outside in and from the inside out."
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