Word: argentina
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...contrast, love objects in Argentina run more toward postimpressionist paintings from pricey Buenos Aires galleries like Wildenstein, or jewelry selected by government officials for their wives from a famed jewelry shop like Ricciardi, a favorite haunt of the late Evita Peron. Those bills too, of course, are paid by the deal-hungry businessmen...
...mission to Latin America, Walters, formally deputy chief of the CIA, visited Mexico and Venezuela, and this week he plans to stop in Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Though Walters conferred with Mexican President José López Portillo, neither country would confirm the meeting publicly; Mexico sympathizes with the Salvadoran guerrillas, and Walters' visit could be an embarrassment...
...some promised American carrots were not delivered. (For example, Congress overrode the Nixon Administration's recommendation on most-favored-nation trading status for the U.S.S.R.) When American inducements were made less tempting to the Kremlin, many of the same benefits became available elsewhere-technology from Japan, grain from Argentina, electronic products and computer equipment from France. Today Soviet officials say privately that the Politburo's decision to step up its African activities in 1975 was made easier by the fiasco over the Jackson Amendment, and that the decision to invade Afghanistan in December 1979 was made easier...
This is a part any actress would die to play. One actress did: the '40s radio performer Eva Duarte. At 17 she was an ambitious ingenue who moved up by sleeping around; at 27 she was the First Lady of Argentina, the power behind Juan Perón; at 33 she was dead of cancer. She was one smart cookie, laced with strychnine-Eva Brains and Evita Braun. As a wily teenager, she ran through lovers like a bull on the pampas; as Senora Perón, she stalked the corridas of power, sniffing for the blood...
...petition, circulated at a meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Boston in late December, urges the government to withhold aid from Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia and Colombia...