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...Former Senator Hipólito Solari Yrigoyen, known for his firm defense of human rights during the Peronist years, was kidnaped from his home in southern Argentina in mid-August. Although Interior Minister General Albano Harguindeguy personally tried to find him, the search took two weeks. Solari was finally pitched out of the back of a truck, together with another legislator who had been kidnaped at the same time. Both men were immediately rearrested by the army...
After Torres' assassination, Argentine Interior Minister General Albano Harguindeguy denounced a "well-directed campaign from abroad aimed at undermining the prestige of the new authorities and hindering the process of national reorganization." Harguindeguy was referring to what he called "false" charges-mainly in the European press -that Argentina has failed to protect political refugees; many of his fellow officers suspect that the murders are the work of right-wing Peronist death squads trying to discredit the Videla government...
Died. Eugéne Cardinal Tisserant, 87, Roman Catholic scholar and longtime prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches, which supervises the affairs of Eastern Rite Roman Catholics; of a heart attack; in Albano, Italy. An accomplished paleographer (specialist in ancient writing), Tisserant was until last year administrator of the Vatican library, which he modernized into one of the best equipped in all Europe. An important figure in the ecumenical movement to bring the Greek and Roman branches of the church into closer harmony, he was considered a possible papal candidate after the death of Pius...
...stuffy atmosphere of the regular party. From the ninth AD the people spread into the silk stocking district to win Lindsay a seat in Congress. Over the years Lindsay's people quietly took over the Manhattan Republican leadership. Manhattan was secured with the election of the pro-Lindsay Vincent Albano as Manhattan leader...
...seat he has already won twelve times-even though, as seemed likely, the House might continue to deny it to him. Then James Meredith, 33, the moody loner of the civil rights movement who is now a Columbia law student, announced that he would accept Manhattan Republican Chairman Vincent Albano's invitation to oppose Powell...