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...Administration utterly by surprise. When Sadat stepped on the podium in the Knesset to deliver his speech, Jimmy Carter's chief troubleshooter for the Middle East, Cyrus Vance, was airborne at 30,000 ft. off the coast of South Carolina heading for a long-scheduled visit to Argentina...
Borges includes a few of his gaucho stories: spare, Kiplingesque tales of hard drinking and knife fights in provincial Argentina, where, he says, there is no small town "that isn't exactly like all the others - even to the point of thinking itself different." Such stories of pure action follow a ritual and rhythm - like simple milongas and tangos - that allow the author to dance briefly from the library stacks where he has spent most of his years. And where he truly belongs. For it is from the life of books that he discovered how to fit elegantly rigged...
...Montoneros. Once a neo-Peronist youth group-the name means bushfighters-the Marxist Montoneros of Argentina were responsible for many of the random murders and kidnapings during the regime of Isabelita Perón. The military junta has mounted a countrywide war against these archetypal Latin American guerrillas, whose goal is to take over the government. At least 9,000 Montoneros have been killed or detained by police. But an estimated 12,000 remain at large, and their leaders-Mario Firmenich, Fernando Vaca Narvaja, Horacio Mendizabál-have close contacts with the Palestinians. The Montonero slogan: FATHERLAND OR DEATH...
DIED. José Ber Gelbard, 60, wealthy Argentine aluminum and tire manufacturer who served as Economy Minister (May 1973 to October 1974) under President Juan Perón and his widow Isabel; of a heart attack; in Washington, B.C. To slow Argentina's 80%-a-year inflation, Gelbard decreed stringent wage and price controls. But his policies contributed to the country's near economic collapse, precipitating the 1976 coup that overthrew Isabel. Said Gelbard of Argentine business: "There are no rules. Those who are in power make up the rules. So those out of favor are bound...
Through his informer network-composed of former concentration camp inmates-Wiesenthal learned that Mengele had settled in Argentina and alerted the Israelis and West Germans. The West Germans requested Mengele's extradition, but the Argentines refused. Dispensing with legal niceties, the Israelis planned to kidnap him at the same time that they seized SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Final Solution. But the doctor got away. Under questioning in Israel, Eichmann admitted that he had received money from Mengele, whose family is wealthy...