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...fascist coup-makers." Tanks and troops also moved into southern towns where some 5,000 armed tin miners were blocking the roads and vowing to fight the coup "until the ultimate consequences." There were ominous signs that the junta had adopted the chilling anti-terrorist tactics pioneered by Argentina's military bosses. As in Argentina, a number of activists simply disappeared after being kidnaped by plain-clothes thugs in cars without license plates...
...trim that percentage further and stimulate more business competition, Martínez de Hoz has granted tax incentives to encourage foreign firms already in Argentina to expand their operations and new ones to set up plants. So far, the response has been positive. Ford plans to spend $160 million on expansion of its plant located in a suburb of the capital. Volkswagen intends to invest $100 million to expand the plant it bought from Chrysler. Martínez de Hoz also relaxed Argentina's ultranationalist laws banning foreign oil companies from participating in petroleum exploration. In response, foreign firms...
...attempt to damp down such prices, Dr. Joe has adopted a policy of lowering Argentina's once fearsome tariff walls to allow cheaper foreign goods to flow into the country. Import duties have averaged over 45%, but the goal is to reduce them to 15% by 1984. The Argentine balance of payments will remain in the red this year, despite the export of grain to the Soviet Union following the embargo of U.S. sales to that country in January in retaliation for the Afghanistan invasion. The Soviets will buy $800 million worth of grain and meat from Argentina this...
...reason is the sheer power of his medium. WWWE, one of a handful of 50,000 watt-clear channel radio stations in the U.S., can be heard every night over half the continent, and listeners as far away as Iceland and Argentina have reported reception. "I have fan clubs in Atlanta, Toronto, all over," Franklin comments. "I'm not what you'd call a local figure...
...problems of socially stimulated inflation have been compounded by the now deeply ingrained inflation psychology. The attitude of "Buy it now because it will cost more tomorrow" has long been common in such Latin American countries as Argentina and Chile, where annual price rises of 100% or more have been known. But the American reaction as recently as 1973, when inflation hit 12%, was to save in the face of higher costs. Price rises created insecurity, and people fearful of losing their jobs began putting more in the banks. During the past year, however, Americans have caught the Latin virus...