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Last year, the Libyans reportedly contacted two Belgian firms, Belgonucleaire and Cockerill-Sambre, in an effort to gain engineering assistance for nuclear projects. The contract would have been worth nearly $1 billion, but under U.S. pressure the Belgians backed out. Some support, however, has apparently been provided by Argentina, in return for arms valued at more than $100 million that Gaddafi supplied during the Falklands...
...nonproliferation treaty should be encouraged to follow is that of France. Despite their refusal to sign the treaty, the French as long ago as 1968 declared that they would abide by the accord in demanding international safeguards from any country that sought to buy their technology. Both Brazil and Argentina have followed the same practice in recent deals with China; such behavior should be applauded when appropriate and, if possible, rewarded...
...after day on the front pages, night after night on television screens, Argentina is reliving -- and hoping to redeem -- a bloodstained past. Confronting the country are full and grisly accounts of the "dirty war," the years between 1976 and 1981, in which at least 10,000 Argentines either were killed or disappeared as a succession of military governments fought against what they considered to be leftist subversion. Those were years of unbridled terror, of torture, abduction, rape and execution, of victims being dropped from helicopters, of the dreaded night-time knock on the door. One citizen last week recalled...
...Argentina, which is eager to resume talks with Britain about the islands' sovereignty after losing a war over the issue three years ago, was unhappy because the main purpose of the 8,500-ft. runway is to accommodate British military traffic. At an emergency meeting in Washington of the Organization of American States, Argentine Foreign Minister Dante Caputo accused Britain of "fortifying the islands" (the Malvinas to Argentines) and endangering peace in the area...
After disappearing from Germany in 1949, Mengele is believed to have gone through Italy to Argentina, where he took up residence in Buenos Aires and began to represent the family firm, Karl Mengele & Sons, a manufacturer of agricultural equipment (the firm is still run by Mengele's family in Gunzburg). Around this time, he is said to have met Alfredo Stroessner, the grandson of a Bavarian cavalry officer, who seized power in Paraguay in 1954. When a Frankfurt court issued an order for Mengele's arrest in 1959, he fled to Paraguay to avoid extradition...