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...stone" in the language of the Guaraní Indians. Now Itaipu has a new significance: it is the name of the largest hydroelectric dam in the world, an $18.5 billion structure that was officially dedicated last week by Brazilian President João Baptista Figueiredo and his Paraguayan counterpart, Alfredo Stroessner. Said Figueiredo after the two heads of state pulled a lever opening the dam's orange-colored floodgates: "This is an example for developing countries. Itaipu shows that our people are capable of developing our own technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Megawatt Monolith | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

...page certification document offered no grounds for unalloyed optimism. The report admitted that the overall improvement "has not been as great as hoped" and that "serious problems remain." On the issue of human rights, the report claimed that the government of President Alvaro Alfredo Magaña "is making a concerted and significant effort" to curb violations. The study presented statistics from five sources showing that the number of civilian deaths from political violence has dropped considerably. Said Enders: "All available evidence suggests that the most serious violations are on a slow, downward curve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Overcoming the Doubts | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...surrender been hoisted over the island capital of Port Stanley when a set of new, potentially more formidable problems emerged. Three days after Britain's triumph, Argentina's top generals ousted President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri. He was temporarily replaced as President by yet another general, Interior Minister Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, and as army chief by Major General Cristino Nicolaides. Said Galtieri, following his removal from power: "I am going because the army did not give me the political support to continue." In fact, Galtieri's fall may have been hastened by crowds of a very different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now, to Win the Peace | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

What outraged Duarte was the sweeping nature of the resolution. President Alvaro Alfredo Magana's original proposal was to continue the exemption, first enacted last year, of cotton and sugar cane acreage from the so-called land-to-the-tiller reform decree, which enables tenant farmers and sharecroppers to acquire plots of up to 17 acres from their landlords. The suspension, for one growing season (a year for cotton, three to four years for sugar cane), was aimed at ensuring high production of two of the country's leading exports at a time of economic strain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Reform Setback | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...ultraright Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) denounced him as "the biggest thief in El Salvador." But when the votes were counted in San Salvador's linoleum and plate-glass Legislative Palace last week, the members of El Salvador's newly elected constituent assembly had chosen Alvaro Alfredo Magaña, 56, a U.S.-educated economist and banker, as the country's provisional President by a vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: The Making of a President | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

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