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...California real estate developer and charter member of Reagan's kitchen cabinet of personal advisers. Archbishop Pio Laghi, 61, the apostolic delegate in Washington, will become Wilson's counterpart, the papal pronuncio. One of the Holy See's ablest diplomats, he previously served in Argentina, where he assisted the Vatican's mediation of the Beagle Channel dispute between Argentina and Chile...
...coats and ties. In several, they looked saucy before the camera. That was in better days, before the subjects came to be counted among the desaparecidos; thousands, possibly tens of thousands of men, women and children who, as alleged enemies of the state, disappeared under the military government of Argentina in the late 1970s...
...make people disappear. They did what they could: abduct, torture, shoot, behead and bury their enemies in mass and secret graves. What they hoped most recently, since ending their "dirty war" of antiterrorism. was that the issue of the desaparecidos would itself disappear. If the newly elected President of Argentina, Raul Alfonsin, had any sense of custom or propriety, that is precisely what would have happened. But Alfonsin seemed unaware that one does not put the military on trial; and, in any event, graves seemed to be popping up all over the countryside at an alarming rate; and there were...
...truly intent on making others disappear, he is far more likely to succeed by killing his enemies outright and announcing the deed publicly. Then at least one deals out certainty, which will probably be followed by despair. By creating "disappearances" in Argentina, the military leaders not only engendered a feeling of national absence and brooding but raised a question of logic. Gone? How can anyone be gone nowadays in our small, interconnected, excessively communicative modern world? Instead of a nation of mourners, the generals created a nation of snoopers, all pawing at the ground for bones...
...years Cuba would lead the world in health-care delivery. Illiteracy has been virtually eliminated; Cuba's population now has an average educational level equivalent to junior high school. Last week Castro added the boast that Cuba is the second-best-fed country in Latin America, after Argentina, a major grain and beef exporter...