Word: argentina
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...Argentina's troops return, the junta is in disarray...
...them in the Falklands, shop windows throughout the country were plastered with sky-blue-and-white signs proclaiming UNIDOS, ES MÁS FACIL (United, it's easier). By last week those painted proclamations had faded in the weak sunlight of the southern winter-and so had Argentina's façade of political unity. As British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher confirmed to President Ronald Reagan that Argentina would have no say in the future of the disputed Falkland Islands, the defeated nation bordered dangerously on anarchy...
...Argentina's three-man ruling junta was riven over the choice of a new President to succeed Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, the army general who was forced to resign after his troops surrendered to the British two weeks ago. Following five days of bickering, army Major General Cristino Nicolaides, the junta's newest member, ignored navy and air force objections and endorsed retired Major General Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone, 54, as the country's seventh military President in six years. Said Bignone, who was scheduled to be sworn in this week: "I am absolutely certain that with...
...army in sole control for the first time since the military took power in 1976, but it also turned the army into a kind of rump political force. Asserting that it had "assumed the political conduct of the national government," the army promised unenthusiastically that it would return Argentina to civilian rule by "the first months...
Whether the precariously isolated army could hang on to power that long was another question. The situation, in the words of a Latin American expert in Washington, was "extremely unstable." President-designate Bignone was not linked with Galtieri's government. A former infantry commander who oversaw Argentina's top military academies in 1980 and 1981, Bignone was shunted aside when Galtieri seized power last December. Bignone is touted as a dialoguista, meaning that he favors the opening of discussions with Argentina's 14 suspended political parties. But behind the new President stood Major General Nicolaides...