Word: againsts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Q. You have warned against "mischievous people" who are trying to divide the armed forces. What do you mean by that?
When word that Argentina had won the world junior soccer championship in Tokyo reached Buenos Aires, the country burst into frenzied celebration. Two days later, thousands of screaming fans gathered in the capital's Plaza de Mayo as President Jorge Rafael Videla welcomed home the squad, still beaming from...
Satisfied that the "war" against the Montonero terrorists had been won, General Videla last year ordered that squalid prisons where thousands of political prisoners were held should be spruced up, and invited the Inter-American Commission to make a firsthand inspection of its human rights performance. As Videla told TIME...
It has been a bad year for right-wing dictatorships-and for the U.S., which has often supported them. First Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran, then General Anastasio Somoza Debayle of Nicaragua were swept into exile by largely home-grown revolutions. Each had long been taken for granted as...
Aside from quarreling over who "lost" Iran and Nicaragua, many in the Carter Administration would agree with Kissinger that there are great risks in pulling the rug out from under a longtime client without a plausible, acceptable successor well positioned to take over. "It's an unhappy fact of...