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...eleven oil ministers in Vienna. Then, in Athens, the chief of the CIA office in Greece was slain by three gunmen as he returned home from a Christmas party. In Lebanon, an estimated 250 people were killed and another 400 kidnaped in that country's civil war. In Argentina, more than 85 leftists died in clashes with the army as President Isabel Peron struggled to maintain power (see story page 47). In Ethiopia, another U.S. civilian was kidnaped by Eritrean rebels, bringing to five the number of Americans held by the Eritreans. "We have been saying it for years...
...fellow officers, who thereupon declared a rebellion. Military leaders, apparently sharing the general dislike of Fautario, quickly acceded to one of the rebels' demands and dismissed him. But Fautario's successor, Brigadier General Orlando Ramon Agosti, was unsympathetic to the rebels' second, more ambitious goal: that Argentina's military should remove Isabel Perón as President and replace her with General Jorge Rafael Videla, the wiry and astute commander of the army. President Perón, meanwhile, cheerfully entertained members of the Argentina legislature on the wide lawns of her residence in suburban Olivos...
Popular Contempt. The thwarted attack was a heartening triumph for the army. But it also pointed up the fact that the army has its hands full maintaining internal security without getting involved once again in Argentina's politics. Top army leaders like Commanding General Videla-who could have the presidency virtually for the asking-remember the long, bitter period of military control over Argentina's government from 1966 to 1973. The failure by the military to arrest Argentina's slide into chaos earned it such popular contempt that children even denied that their fathers were soldiers...
...Deutsche Grammophon). In the finest piano album to result from the Ravel centenary, Argentina's Martha Argerich, 34, displays a mind that is as dexterous as her fingers...
...FIRST WORLD includes the advanced industrial nations of Europe, North America and Asia that accept a more or less capitalist, market-oriented economy. The U.S., Canada, Japan, most of the nations of Western Europe, New Zealand and Australia clearly qualify. South Africa, Portugal, Greece, Spain and Argentina are borderline cases...