Word: argentina
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...Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 23 years after he was reported to be alive in Russia, 21 years after he was said to be a monk in Italy, and less than half a year after Spy-Story Teller Ladislas Farrago claimed that he was still living as a millionaire in Argentina, a West German court last week formally pronounced the Nazi leader dead−along with all the rumors about his escape...
...Fiat all rushed forward and hustled Da Cruz away. Five days later, just before releasing the 38-year-old Portuguese American near the spot where they had seized him, the kidnapers gave local newspapers a photograph that showed Da Cruz, who is Kodak's No. 2 man in Argentina, standing dejectedly in front of a sign: $1,500,000 RECOVERED FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE FOR SOCIALISM...
...paid a reported $1,000,000 in December to free the kidnaped head of its Argentine operations. The Argentine manager of Boston's First National Bank was released after the bank paid a $750,000 ransom. Another $1.5 million ransom was reportedly paid for the British president of Argentina's largest cigarette company, who was released last week. His wife, convinced from the start that his company would pay whatever ransom was demanded, went on television to admonish the kidnapers to "give him a comfortable bed and a little whisky now and then to keep his spirits...
...foreign business community provides the kidnapers with lots of targets−the American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina counts 400 U.S. companies and hundreds of executives among its members. Some of these executives now carry guns, others follow complicated routes to and from work; some even change residences weekly...
...reaction is the same in the 100 U.S. cities and 55 foreign countries in which Star Trek reruns are shown. TV viewers from Argentina to Zambia have seen Captain Kirk and his crew, and in Germany and England the show is among the most popular aired. Dubbed in Spanish, Portugese, French, German and Japanese, it is hard to believe that anyone within range of a television set hasn't seen at least one episode of Star Trek...