Word: argentina
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...very good health, just like Argentina." That was the sanguine remark of Josó López Rega, Argentina's star-gazing gray eminence, as he arrived last week in Madrid, supposedly to become a special ambassador from Buenos Aires in Europe. In fact, his comment was inaccurate in almost every respect...
...Rega had just been forced to resign as Minister of Social Welfare and personal secretary to President Isabel Perón-the positions that had made him the most powerful man in Argentina. Mrs. Perón, who has erratically governed the country since the death of her husband a year ago, was clearly in poor physical and emotional health. Argentina seemed to be teetering ever closer to economic collapse...
...there were especially ominous signs for some democratic or formerly democratic governments. India, under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's state of emergency, seemed to be slipping into authoritarianism. Portugal, which not long ago gave hopes of becoming a successful democracy, seemed to be heading toward a leftist dictatorship. Argentina, where the chances of democracy admittedly had never been strong, seemed on the edge of bankruptcy and chaos. Though Britain appeared to be making some moderate progress in fighting its way back from the economic precipice, it remained in desperate shape...
Other countries vary widely, from relatively straightforward capitalism, as in Singapore, Canada and Argentina, through mixed economies where the government owns only key industries (oil in Indonesia), to nearly total government control of business, as in Cuba, Algeria and Hungary...
...Argentina, Japan, Pakistan, Israel and South Africa, as well as Brazil. Thus most experts rate the treaty a failure...