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DAVID BEN-GURION was one of the last of the seemingly larger-than-life national leaders who emerged in the 1930s and 40s. A few of these men--China's Mao, Argentina's Peron, Yugoslavia's Tito--are still at the helm, but almost all of them have been replaced by people like Leonid Brezhnev and President Nixon, uninspiring but still dangerously powerful...
Like hundreds of his fellow American businessmen in Argentina, Ford Executive John Albert Swint, 56, lived in fear. Marauding bands of guerrillas have turned terrorism into a fact of life for the relatively rich and powerful in the country, especially around the industrial center of Cordoba, 450 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, which has become known as "the capital of terrorism...
Until this attack, the bloodiest yet, businessmen generally had been kidnaped and returned unharmed by the terrorists after paying ransoms that have added up to an estimated $20 million in a year. So far this year there have been more than 160 reported kidnapings in Argentina, including nine foreigners -three of them Americans...
Less Charitable. Police said that the deadly efficiency of the ambush indicated it was the work of the extremist, self-styled Marxist-Leninist People's Revolutionary Army, which this time was out to kill, not kidnap. This same organization last May fatally wounded a Ford-of-Argentina executive and slightly wounded another. After threatening more terrorism, the group demanded and got $1,000,000 from Ford for ambulances and medical and school supplies for the Argentine poor. This time the motive was less charitable. The shooting was seen instead as part of a systematic effort to scare off foreign...
...commanding 64% of the legislature on his side and his political opposition is both divided and ineffectual. The immediate danger is that Perón's get-tough policy against the left could backfire, plunging Argentina into a bitter round of ideological warfare. In recent weeks, there have been new clashes within the Justicialist movement between left-and right-wing Peronists. Last week the armed forces came under attack. A member of the general staff of the infantry was kidnaped by the Marxist-Leninist People's Revolutionary Army, which announced that attacks against the "repressive armed forces" will...