Word: argentina
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...international war now, a number of minor and civil conflicts are disturbing the peace. British and Icelandic gunboats are standing by to defend disputed cod fishing rights in the North Atlantic. Lebanon and Angola seethe with civil war. Indonesia presses its offensive against the Portuguese colony of East Timor. Argentina is plagued with terrorism. The occasions, technology and stratagems of war continue to multiply; the rudiments of peacemaking, this Christmas as ever, remain elusive...
...First World; Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Indonesia, Venezuela and Nigeria from OPEC; and India, Pakistan, Yugoslavia, Egypt, Cameroon, Zaire, Zambia, Argentina. Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Jamaica from the developing world...
MEMORABLE CHARACTERS here--like most of Bashevis Singer's more important character sketches elsewhere--derive the most rudimentary aspects of their personalities from being Jewish. "Hanka" is the story of a mysterious woman by the same name whom the first-person narrator meets in Argentina. She lived in the ghettoes of Warsaw during the Nazi occupation--saved only by her Gentile lover on the "Aryan side" of the city. Despite surviving the Holocaust, her experience living in a hidden closet, every minute fearing capture and torture, has convinced Hanka that she is dead: "Those who stood at the threshhold...
Jorge Luis Borges, the great poet and essayist, the most eminent living Argentine, is proud to come from a patriot family. Some fought for Argentina and "some died...
...country. I am ashamed of my country today." Is there any hope for Argentina? "No−oh, maybe in 200 years." Borges is almost totally blind, but he knows how shabby Buenos Aires has become, "and I still get homesick if I'm away for a few months...