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Authorities have meanwhile launched a crackdown on dissent at home that critics say carries echoes of the Soviet era -- even though it is a far cry from the calamitous bloodshed perpetrated by Stalin.

The Peronists, for their part, offer little except a return to the calamitous past.

“You come here for a unique window into this pivotal calamitous moment that wiped out the dinosaurs and made the modern world as we know it,” Mr. Lacovara says.

The immediate cause of his calamitous fin de régime is now clear.

Their problems on the square continued with the calamitous run out of Gill, who at times in the series has seemed immovable.