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...appeared. Who would believe a bloc including Switzerland, Bolivia, Afghanistan and Singapore, for example? Yet they have found common cause because they are either landlocked or have extremely narrow continental shelves, and they want a share of the resources of the seas. Nations with broad shelves -among them India, Argentina and Canada-are united in pressing for as big a territorial sea as possible. Archipelagic states like Indonesia and Mauritius want to control not only all the water around their component islands, but also the passage of vessels through straits. The overriding concern of the major maritime powers, which Include...
...under her husband and is also Minister of Social Welfare. Moments later she reaffirmed Perón's economic policy, having earlier retained José Gelbard as Economics Minister. The next day she appeared at Buenos Aires' cathedral for a Te Deum commemorating the 158th anniversary of Argentina's independence. As she appeared in the doorway, carrying the presidential baton and wearing a theatrical black cape, the crowd spontaneously cheered...
...aide, López Rega became a highly controversial political figure, distrusted by moderate and leftist Peronistas both in and out of the government. When he went to Libya last March to negotiate an oil deal, later criticized as too costly, he complained that he had been hindered because Argentina had too many Jews on its economic team. Gelbard is a Jew. This conflict is expected to get worse as it becomes increasingly difficult to hold the line on Argentina's 30% inflation, especially after the recent wage hikes-some as high as 80% -for such groups as journalists...
...many Argentines still feel uncomfortable with Isabelita as La Presidenta. They distrust a woman in such a high position and question her background. Born in Argentina's impoverished La Rioja province, the daughter of a bank executive, she left home in her 20s to join a troupe of traveling folk dancers. In 1956, after finishing a performance in a Panama City cabaret, she was introduced to the exiled Per?...
Died. Juan Domingo Perón, 78, President of Argentina (see THE WORLD...