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Embargoes frequently fail because other countries provide markets and supplies. Japan, Canada and Spain have become Cuba's major non-Communist trading partners. When President Carter imposed sanctions on grain sales to the Soviet Union following the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Moscow simply found new suppliers, principally Argentina. The U.S. had tried to prevent the sale of oil- and gas-pipeline equipment to the Soviets to express its disapproval of Soviet involvement when martial law was imposed in Poland in late 1981, but Washington backed off when its European allies raised angry protests. The U.S. also imposed a variety...
Among the defendants charged with crimes including illegal arrests, torture and murder: ex-Presidents Jorge Rafael Videla, Roberto Viola and Leopold Galtieri, the architect of Argentina's disastrous war with Britain for control of the Falkland Islands, known in Argentina as the Malvinas. Last week, Alfonsin said the trial was "of such importance that in my view it will end 50 years of democratic frustration and national decadence...
Reagan strove to be as tactful on economic issues as Alfonsin was on political questions. The U.S. President chose not to reply directly to Argentina's most immediate plea for U.S. assistance, a request for a $500 million "bridge loan" to help the country ride out the debt crisis. But Reagan did assure Alfonsin that, as a U.S. official later put it, "we stand ready to help where we can." Later, Reagan aides expressed skepticism that the U.S. could or would do much on the debt question. "He would like our support," said one U.S. official...
Prior to the OAS speech, Alfonsin held what was probably the most crucial of all his meetings in the U.S., a breakfast session with Jacques de Larosiere, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund. The IMF had promised Argentina $1.4 billion in special credits in return for compliance with a severe anti-inflation program. Last week, however, the IMF suspended further disbursements of its funds on the grounds that Argentina is failing to meet specified austerity targets. Commercial banks did the same...
...deadline looms this Sunday, when the country must come up with $1.1 billion in interest payments, mainly to U.S. banks. A review of Argentina's economic adjustment program is still going on. This week, an IMF mission will fly to Buenos Aires for talks with the Argentine government...