Word: argentina
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...some of Thatcher's advisers objected that it was against international law to attack a ship without warning. The New Statesman also said that the British sent a Polaris submarine armed with nuclear missiles to the South Atlantic and might have used the sub as a threat if Argentina had attacked their forces. Two top Royal Navy officers have denied the charges...
...American nation in 1976. That was the same year that Chilean secret-police agents in Washington, D.C., murdered Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean Defense Minister whom the government of Dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte disliked for his criticism of its human rights violations. When Chile almost went to war with Argentina in 1978 over ownership of three islands in the Beagle Channel, near the continent's southern tip, the Chilean government urged private industry to become involved in defense contracting. One firm that responded was Explosives Industrials Cardoen, a small company that was then producing explosives for use in mining...
...taken a while for this novel to find its way into English. The Seven Madmen was first published in Argentina in 1929. Its author, Roberto Arlt (1900-42), was a disheveled Buenos Aires journalist who defiantly disregarded the rules of Spanish grammar and the finer sensibilities of critics. They in turn hooted at his work, which included four novels, two collections of stories and eight plays. The author once mordantly mimicked the typical response of his detractors: "Mr. Roberto Arlt keeps on in the same old rut: realism in the worst possible taste...
...called the Astrologer in a plot to take over the world. It goes something like this: Give the masses a new religious symbol to believe in ("harness the madman power") and then exploit their zeal to create wealth, in this case by mining gold in a remote area of Argentina. The Astrologer explains: "See? We'll lure the workers in with false promises and whip them to death if they won't work." Erdosain feels flattered to be included among the brains of this organization. His invention of a copper-plated rose, once perfected and put into production...
When last the Los Angeles Coliseum greeted a winning Olympic marathon champion, he was Juan Carlos Zabala of Argentina, in 1932. Zabala would have finished a poor tenth to Benoit...