Word: argentina
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During last spring's Falkland Islands war, the Security Council condemned Argentina's invasion of Britain's remote South Atlantic dependencies, but Secretary-General Pérez de Cuellar failed in his efforts to avert bloodshed. Nor did the General Assembly dare to condemn the Soviet Union by name when it called for an end to Moscow's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan...
...over the first Latin American convention, held in Mexico City, on the dangers of nuclear proliferation. Two years later, he proudly oversaw the signing of the Tlatelolco Treaty. (That document, however, still has only symbolic significance: the two countries most likely to develop atomic bombs in Latin America, Argentina and Brazil, have signed the treaty but have not yet ratified...
...protest strikes, and international condemnation of their quasi-official participation in the cocaine trade, Bolivia's generals were marching back to the barracks. They were not alone. During the past two years, Peru and Ecuador had already replaced uniformed leaders with civilian regimes. At the same time, Argentina's generals set a target of late 1983 for free elections, and in November Brazil's military government will allow the first free elections in two decades. Said Peru's civilian President, Fernando Belaúnde Terry: "Times are good for democracy...
Other lyrics evoke laughter of a different nature, "Screw the middle classes!" Evita demands. Sometime thereafter, she sings, "Don't Cry For Me Argentina," whose introduction contains the cliche-ridden lyric. "You wouldn't believe it/ Coming from a girl you once knew/ Although she dressed up to the nines/ At sixes and sevens with you." An otherwise wonderful "High Flying Adored" includes this unusual rhyme; "I'm their savior. That's a what they call me/ So Lauren Bacall me." Fortunately, though, the last lyrics are overshadowed by stage action as Evita rushes back and forth, gradually transforming herself...
...defaulted on $80 billion it owed international banks, money managers around the globe have had a bad case of the jitters. While the Toronto meeting was going on last week, there were reports of still more Latin American financial troubles. The heads of the central banks of Chile and Argentina were summarily removed from their posts, and Argentine officials began looking for new loans so that the country could meet payments on a $40 billion debt. Jacques de Larosière, the managing director of the IMF, told the assembled moneymen in Toronto: "The world economic situation is very complex...