BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP):

Late strongman Juan Domingo Peron, who dominated Argentine politics like no other 20th-century leader with the glamorous Evita at his side, was to be buried yesterday for a third time since his death in 1974.

Peron's body was taken in a funeral van early yesterday to a union hall for a midday tribute.

The remains were later escorted to a new US$1.1 million mausoleum in the cattle-ranching countryside, where supporters hope one day the embalmed body of his famous first lady may rest beside him. Relatives of the late Eva Peron, or Evita, have opposed moving her remains from the tomb in Buenos Aires' downtown Recoleta cemetery, after a bizarre drama in which her remains made two trans-Atlantic crossings since her death from cancer in 1952 at age 33.