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...reign of terror that has plagued Argentina since the death of President Juan Peron on July 1 continued unabated last week. Political violence claimed its 100th victim in three months when Army Captain Miguel Paiva was gunned down last Wednesday as he waited at a bus stop near his home in Buenos Aires. His murder brought to eight the number of military killed or wounded since a left-wing terrorist group vowed last month to assassinate sixteen officers to avenge the deaths of sixteen guerrillas (TIME, Sept. 30). In addition, a terrorist's bomb killed Chile's exiled...
...funeral of another officer, Argentina's army commander, Lieut. General Leandro Anaya, promised to wage battle with the terrorists "until we have achieved the total extermination of the enemies of the fatherland." While threatening to wipe out the guerrillas, Anaya was careful to stress that the army will do so in support of President Isabel Perdón's constitutional government and not by overthrowing...
...Rodolfo Puiggrós and Raul Laguzzi have taken asylum in Mexico. Folk Singer Horacio Guarany fled to Venezuela last week. Actress Nacha Guevara left for Peru as did Comedian Norman Briski. Although it has not been directly linked to the A.A.A., the murder of General Prats has put Argentina's large community of political exiles on notice that the country is no longer a safe refuge...
...seminar, where each student seems intent on leading a filibuster. In one course I took in the Department of G******* a student seemed fixated on the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. Whether the day's discussion focused on the plight of agricultural laborers in Brazil, the trade union movement in Argentina, or the economic infrastructure of Venezuela, this loquacious student would ask how it compared with Zapata's noble effort in the Mexican mountains, and then proceed with an interminable, well-documented response. I took to letting out extended sighs during the class, punctuated every so often by contemptuous snorts...
Since Aug. 1 the toll from both left-and right-wing terrorism has averaged one death every 19 hours, and it is rising steadily. That chilling statistic is only one sign of Argentina's turmoil. Late last week two members of one of Argentina's richest families, Juan and Jorge Born, were kidnaped by left-wing guerrillas in the Buenos Aires suburb of La Lucila while a trainload of commuters looked on in horror...