Word: alfonse
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Alfonsín settles accounts
Alfonsín takes on the military
Peering over his half-moon reading glasses during a hastily arranged television broadcast, Argentina's newly elected President, Raúl Alfonsín, last week made the most dramatic announcement of his young administration. In the dry tones of a country lawyer, Alfonsín told his nationwide...
Alfonsín named nine generals and admirals, including three former Presidents: General Jorge Videla, who presided over the early days of the dirty war; General Roberto Viola, Videla's successor; and General Leopoldo Galtieri, author of the doomed attempt to capture the Falkland Islands last year. Alfonsí...
Alfonsín apparently has other plans to clip the military's wings. Reports circulating in Buenos Aires have it that in a new budget to be presented to Congress in February, allocations to the military will be reduced from 37% of the national budget to 12% or 13...