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...also practiced her Spanish; she knows no Portuguese, the language of the biggest country she will visit ?Brazil. Mrs. Carter's itinerary takes her to four democracies (Jamaica, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Colombia) and three military dictatorships (Brazil, Peru and Ecuador) but skips such "southern cone" countries as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, all run by rightist juntas. Whatever importance different regimes attach to her visit, she seems assured of a cordial welcome wherever she goes and a downright affectionate one in some places. A representative of Peru's leftist regime, evidently viewing her more as a tourist than...
Terror in Argentina...
...Argentina's military government has brought the country from paralysis to the edge of hope," writes Barry Hillenbrand [April 11], an assertion based on interviews with business leaders and members of the junta. Hillenbrand tells us nothing about what the millions of Argentine workers think. He quotes not one of the more than 10,000 political prisoners, and not a single relative of those hundreds who have "disappeared." Nor do we hear from any of the other thousands of victims of Videla's military dictatorship, which rules by terror-kidnaping, torture and murder...
...fact that Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable body of water on earth. Yet this vast land mass, drooping from North America like some ripe, unplucked fruit, has produced some of this century's major poets and novelists: Peru's Cesar Vallejo, Chile's Pablo Neruda, Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia...
Videla is determined to wrestle down the unions' "political power and abnormal privileges." Toward that goal, Martinez de Hoz is trying to prune the mammoth state-run industrial sector, a Perón-era albatross that produces less than 10% of Argentina's G.N.P.-and much of the government's debts and deficits. State enterprises employ an estimated 300,000 unnecessary workers. But the Economy Minister's plans to cut bloated staff and sell losing businesses to private firms have run into strong union opposition. When Videla raised the work week of Buenos Aires' huge...