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...said he will fly to Argentina next week on behalf of Amnesty International to study what he called the "repressive situation" there, and added that he may introduce legislation in Congress that would ban all economic aid to the government of Argentina...
...There isn't a thing in that building that Cy Harris didn't kick at least once," says Johnson. "If he wanted it heavier, he got it. He was the boss, and my approach from the start was that if anyone was going to be exiled to Argentina in the morning, it was going to be him, not me." Harris is not going anyplace, except in triumph to Salt Lake City and Bombay to work on new concert halls...
...Former Senator Hipólito Solari Yrigoyen, known for his firm defense of human rights during the Peronist years, was kidnaped from his home in southern Argentina in mid-August. Although Interior Minister General Albano Harguindeguy personally tried to find him, the search took two weeks. Solari was finally pitched out of the back of a truck, together with another legislator who had been kidnaped at the same time. Both men were immediately rearrested by the army...
...rising level of violence is more and more disturbing to outside observers. Pope Paul, receiving a new Argentine ambassador recently, denounced the murders of priests-apparently by pro-government agents-and the loss of other "valuable lives." In Washington, a congressional subcommittee has begun investigations to determine whether Argentina should be denied U.S. military aid. Subcommittee Chairman Donald Fraser of Minnesota called the wave of killings "shocking...
...counteract such criticisms, the Videla junta has hired a pair of public relations agencies to spread the good news in the U.S. and elsewhere that Argentina's economy is stabilizing and social unrest...