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...complexities and perils of antiterrorist action: the U.S. capture of the Achille Lauro hijackers strained relations with Egypt and Italy, while 60 passengers on the EgyptAir jet were dead after Egyptian commandos stormed the grounded plane in Malta. But in Argentina the elected civilian government of President Raśl Alfonsin sentenced to long prison terms five members of the former military junta who were convicted of practicing what might be called state terrorism: the kidnaping, torture and killing of innocent citizens...
...guilty judgment against Argentina's military rulers from 1976 to 1982, the country's civilian court sets an important example for all the other nations of Latin America [WORLD, Dec. 23]. The courageous actions of President Raul Alfonsin will make it more difficult for other democratic governments to avoid bringing to justice the perpetrators of human rights violations. Milton Swartz Orlando...
Argentine President Carlos Menem, at a rare meeting with his predecessor, Raul Alfonsin, leader of the opposition Civic Radical Union Party, won support for a constitutional measure lifting the ban on successive presidential terms. The deal canceled a scheduled referendum on the issue, which seemed likely to prove an embarrassing defeat for the Radicals. The reform must be ratified by the Civic Radical Union Party; it is then expected to breeze through the legislature. With a 40% approval rating, 10% ahead of any rival's, Menem is likely to make a bid for a second term...
...Noriega, his removal, they say, was not worth a violation of the principle of nonintervention. Few Latin countries have so far recognized the government of Panamanian President Guillermo Endara, and few are likely to do so as long as U.S. troops remain in that country. Said former President Raul Alfonsin of Argentina: "Disrespect for international law leads to the law of the jungle, and in that jungle we Latins are not the lion...
What I had originally envisioned as an organization devoted to championing the democratic vision of some of the region's leaders (President Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica and former Argentine President Raul Alfonsin), was in fact one devoted to spreading the propaganda of its Marxist ideologues, Fidel Castro and Daniel Ortega...