Word: argentina
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...banished from the councils of its hemispheric neighbors in the Organization of American States, and the victim of a formal diplomatic and economic embargo imposed by the U.S. and the rest of Latin America. Or so it has been in theory. In practice, ten countries, including Venezuela, Colombia and Argentina, have resumed diplomatic relations with the Western Hemisphere's only Communist government. Despite the embargo, trade between Cuba and OAS nations is growing rapidly, and a number of foreign subsidiaries of American firms participated in a Mexican-sponsored trade fair in Havana in March. As one Mexican foreign officer...
Rounding out the field will be a group of possible starters named Round Stake (an Allen Jerkens contribution). Gatch (one of those Argentina horses who never should win but do occasionally), Promised City. Fashion Sale and Bold Chapeau...
...latest victim of the most cynical superpower diplomacy of which Henry Kissinger is the outstanding Western exponent ... The meaning of that 'Peace with Honor,' now revealed, strips Henry Kissinger of his own honor." In Latin America, there is scant enthusiasm for Kissinger's scheduled trip to Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela this week. A former Argentine ambassador to the U.S. remarked: "No one down here is thinking that Ford and Kissinger are going to come up with anything new. As far as we're concerned, Kissinger and Ford are already lame ducks...
Since she took office after the death of her husband last July, Argentina's President Isabel Perón has been bedeviled by leftist guerrillas, rightist extremists, angry farmers and restive labor unions. Lately her government has seemed on the verge of foundering. Some diplomatic observers have even predicted a military takeover. Yet last week Mrs. Perón received an unexpected vote of confidence...
Since November, Argentina has been under an official "state of siege."In February, the army ended its two-year hibernation in barracks by deploying some 3,500 soldiers to scour the northwestern jungles of Tucumán province for leftist guerrillas. The government's muscle flexing has not been limited to terrorists. Five moderately left-wing provincial governors have been removed from office by executive decree. The universities have been purged of thousands of dissident professors. Steelworkers at Villa Constitución, the industrial center north of Buenos Aires, have been on strike for four weeks to protest...