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...Alfonsin addressed his backers from the balcony of the Radical party headquarters downtown in the capital. Abandoning the rhetoric of the campaign, Alfonsin sounded the notes of national unity. "We have won, but we have defeated no one," he proclaimed. "This is the triumph of all Argentina...
...agenda. The most immediate problem is the country's growing debt. Alfonsin inherits an agreement with the International Monetary Fund for short-term loans to prevent a default, in exchange for the imposition of austerity measures. Bernardo Grinspun, the President-elect's chief economic adviser, estimates that Argentina will need at least $14 billion next year simply to meet its debt payments. During the campaign, Alfonsin promised to study the repayment agreements, but his advisers say they will not be discarded. "We are not going to conduct a Nuremberg trial," says Grinspun. "If the contracts are in conformity...
...cool inflation at the same time. The new regime hopes that its victory will persuade edgy Argentines to return money that they have transferred outside the country. Alfonsin is willing to discuss the future of the Falk land Islands with the British, but Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who welcomed Argentina's "return to democracy" last week, reiterated that the islanders must be allowed to determine their future...
...admire most is humility. What I cannot stand is arrogance." As a statement of his philosophy of political leadership, it is vintage Raul Alfonsin. It also sets him in sharp contrast with the military rulers Argentina has endured for the better part of a decade. Stocky, garrulous and indefatigable, Alfonsin, 56, has brought a shudder of excitement to a citizenry long inured to monochromatic military men and ineffectual demagogues steeped in the mythology of Juan Perón. Alfonsin has also projected an image of forcefulness and competence necessary to command his unruly nation...
...young Raul was packed off to the San Martin Military Academy in the province of Buenos Aires. Among his classmates was Leopoldo Galtieri, who as head of the military government in 1982 guided Argentina into invading the Falkland Islands. Alfonsin sometimes jokes that because his Jesuit-educated father and uncles had failed to become priests, his mother hoped that he would prove equally resistant to the lure of a military career. "She was right," he says...