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...former National Guard officers, has been purged of its most brutal elements from the days of the Somoza regime-at the urging of the CIA. The second staff group is made up of members of the Honduran military, plus Colonel Bermúdez and a military representative from Argentina, a country that has also been heavily involved in training and equipping the contras. According to the F.D.N., a key member of the second staff is a man known as Carlos, who is the CIA station chief in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa...
...what becomes a legend more than a TV movie? A splashy musical stage biography. It happened to the former first lady of Argentina, among others. And this month in London's West End, it happened to Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn! pastes together a pastiche of the late actress from a collage of 27 numbers that set the producers back some $1.5 million, the most ever spent on a London musical. Entrusted with holding the whole thing together, and with conveying M.M.'s breathy voluptuousness, is Stephanie Lawrence, 28, who headlined the London production of 'Evita by night...
...State Department's 1982 Human Rights Report is a flawed and inconsistent document. In the recently released report, entitled Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1982, the Administration conveniently misrepresents or disregards blatant human rights violations in those countries deemed "friendly" to the United States, such as Guatemala. Argentina, El Salvador, Chile, the Phillipines, and South Korea, while characteristically focusing on the human rights abuses committed in the U.S.S.R. and Soviet bloc countries...
...report on Argentina also contains serious distortions and factual errors. It is not true, for example, that since the ascension of General Bigone to the presidency. "The press has been less inhibited in 1982 than at any time since the early 1970's." In fact, the press was far more free and represented a wider spectrum of political opinion after the national elections of 1973. The Argentine government continued to harass journalists in 1982, and during the Falkland-Malvinas crisis, three British correspondents were incarcerated on "espionage" charges...
...unsure that "there was no evidence of disappearance in 1982," as the report states Ricardo Rene Haidar, a guerrilla leader of the Montenegro revolutionary opposition, was abducted in Buenos Aires last December. He has not been accounted for, and La Prensa--the largest newspaper in Argentina--has reported that he has been executed by security forces...