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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Argentina the post of Economic Minister has become almost as star-crossed as the hyperinflated economy. The previous officeholder, Miguel Roig, 68, died July 14, just six days after he joined the Cabinet of incoming President Carlos Saul Menem. Roig's successor, businessman Nestor Rapanelli, 60, had been on the job only three days last week when newspaper reports disclosed that a judge in Venezuela had put out a warrant for his arrest in connection with a $6 billion trade-fraud scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: This Job Is Jinxed | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...situation demanded strong words, and President Carlos Saul Menem did not shrink from using them. In his July 8 inaugural address, Menem urged his citizens to "Get up and walk!" Argentina, he declared, "is broken, devastated, razed. Inflation has reached chilling levels, but we aren't going to administer the decline. We will pulverize the crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Up and Walk! | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

Most foreign bankers have greeted Menem's plan with hedged optimism. But since Argentina has failed to keep up its payments to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, neither agency is eager to issue fresh credits without some proof of economic progress. "What's announced on paper can be very different from the results," said a U.S. credit analyst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Up and Walk! | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...stem the government's deficit spending, which reached $9.7 billion last year, Menem plans to increase revenues by simplifying the tax-collection system and increasing levies on exported goods. But most economists believe that Menem's most important task will be to privatize Argentina's inefficient state-owned monopolies, which are losing $4 billion annually. Menem may get the power to do so if the Argentine Congress approves a new emergency law that would give him almost unlimited control over the nationalized companies. But Menem has so far offered no details about his privatization drive. Those particulars are not likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Up and Walk! | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...surprised, if you're traveling outside the U.S. or Canada this week, to find TIME with a different cover than the one on this edition. The cover story elsewhere is about the crisis facing Carlos Saul Menem, the incoming President of Argentina, instead of the Pete Rose gambling scandal. The domestic story on gambling runs in a somewhat shorter form inside the other editions. These changes are only the most prominent features of the increasingly rich and specialized editing that TIME provides each week in 5.6 million copies circulated throughout countries around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Jul 10 1989 | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

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