Word: argentina
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...Latin America, coups and military dictatorships have often been the rule. Chile's 1981 constitution grants dictatorial authority to President Augusto Pinochet, the general who seized power in 1973. In Argentina, the three-year effort at civilian rule under constitutionally mandated human-rights principles still sways precariously if the military glowers too hard. Mexico is politically stable and boasts a constitution that provides for separation of powers between branches of government, but the Institutional Revolutionary Party and its forerunner have controlled the presidency -- and much of the other branches -- since...
Under Thatcher the country has asserted itself more on the world stage than at any other time since the 1956 loss of the Suez Canal, an event widely regarded as the end of Britain's days as a major world power. She presided over the 1982 victory against Argentina in the Falklands war, and despite domestic opposition, pressed ahead with the modernization of Britain's aging Polaris nuclear submarine fleet, accepted U.S. cruise missiles on British soil and last year allowed U.S. F-111s to strike Libya from British air bases. Her visit to Moscow in April, during which...
...polls hands down, and rumors began to fly. "People have been asking me about this for months," she complains. Instead of standing on tiptoe, Seymour has kept herself quite busy, thank you, by globe-trotting from Japan, where she played host to a PBS documentary on the country, to Argentina and Spain, where she filmed El Tunel (The Tunnel) with Spanish Director Antonio Drove. "I played a woman obsessed with love," reports Seymour. Hmmm. Would "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" sound more macho in Castilian...
...presumably had concerns that Citicorp's actions might discourage other banks from participating in his Third World initiative, nonetheless expressed hope that the bank will continue lending in Latin America, where it has $14.8 billion in loans outstanding. Citicorp is particularly exposed in Brazil ($4.6 billion), Mexico ($2.9 billion), Argentina ($1.5 billion) and Venezuela ($1 billion...
...fresh cash that helped, in part, to make the interest payments. Reed finally went along after he was prodded by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker, among others. Citicorp nearly balked again this year when banks renegotiated $13.2 billion in loans with the Philippines and $30 billion with Argentina...