Word: argentina
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...action of the play takes place in Argentina in 1948, but the first important event of the play occurs back in 1929. A married couple is travelling to visit their best friends when they die in a car crash...
...Argentina, which waged a losing war against Britain for control of the Falkland Islands in 1982, now wants to buy them. Argentine Foreign Minister Guido Di Tella said his government was prepared to offer the more than 2,000 Falklanders up to $800,000 per inhabitant. The British government says the islanders have a right to self-determination, but the Falklands' governor insists they will not sell their nationality...
...battle is not confined to former communist areas. In Turkey, a nato member, more than 70 journalists were in jail at the end of last year. Despite much progress in Latin America, licensing of journalists and other controls are widespread. Argentina recently threatened to pass a law providing up to 10 years of prison for "dishonoring the name of a politician...
...Argentina's army chief of staff, General Mart?n Balza, admitted that the country's military dictatorship tortured and killed political opponents in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The military, he said, "employed illegitimate methods, including the suppression of life, to obtain information." The announcement, the first official confirmation of such abuses during the so-called Dirty War, follows the recent confessions by two former military men that they took part in secret "death flights," in which sedated but still living victims were thrown from aircraft into the Atlantic...
...Security recommend for the U.S. was pioneered in Chile. Having passed through years of military dictatorship before becoming a democracy, that country isn't normally regarded as a showcase of social policy. Yet its 14-year-old retirement system is being adopted by a number of other nations, including Argentina, Australia and Sweden, that have graying populations and overburdened pension plans. The enforced savings and investment features of the new system are already credited with one remarkable outcome: the net worth of the average Chilean--$21,000--is almost four times the worker's average annual salary. By comparison...