Word: argentina
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...carries rabies, the deadliest of infectious diseases. Despite its minuscule proportions-an adult may weigh as little as one-half ounce and seldom more than 1½ ounces-the common vampire has made it economically impractical to raise cattle or horses in large areas from central Mexico to central Argentina. Efforts to destroy Desmodus rotundus by such crude methods as dynamiting or using flamethrowers in his cave roosts have proved too costly, inefficient, and disastrous for neighboring populations of beneficial, insect-eating bats...
...Argentina, leftist terrorists ambushed and murdered Major General Juan Carlos Sánchez. Recently, Sánchez had boasted that he had eliminated 85% of the guerrillas from the region he controlled in the northeastern part of the country. Only three hours later, another group of guerrillas shot Oberdan Sallustro, the Italian manager of Argentina's Fiat auto plant, who had been kidnaped 20 days earlier...
...expected, his appeal of the decision was rejected, though he got some support. The Inter-American Press Association protested and dailies in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and the U.S. joined in with editorial condemnation. Even Lima's independent El Comercio risked the regime's wrath by siding with Beltrán. But the government has obviously been gunning for him; it has already hounded one of his editors into exile and ordered Beltrán's gracious, 300-year-old Lima town house razed in the name of urban renewal...
...characters of these stories are the sort of people Borges grew up with in Argentina, the heroes and villains of the legends he was taught as a child. They are assorted freebooters and roustabouts who subsist precariously on the edge of civilization. Resigned as they are to a grim fate, the world holds no surprises for them. Murder is as casual as breathing. In The End of the Duel, two gauchos who hate each other are conscripted into the same army and taken prisoner by a malicious prankster who orders them to run a race after their throats have been...
...life in many countries. One of its first achievements was to rid North Africa and Asia of their historic plagues of locusts by means of cross-border aerial patrols and insecticide raids. Since 1966 the program's various studies-such as surveys that pinpoint copper lodes in Argentina, Panama and Turkey, iron ore in Chile and Gabon, and uranium in Somalia -have helped stimulate $5 billion in follow-up private investment. More than a third of all aid has gone to Africa and more than a quarter to Asia for assistance in such basic needs as agriculture, industry...