Word: argentina
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...known, no group has sought to plunge a city into chaos with simultaneous attacks, for example, on its power stations, water supply and main roads. But the degree of terror has increased notably with the cop-killing campaign in the U.S. and the murder of hostages in Canada, Argentina, Uruguay and Guatemala. Thus the urban guerrillas have revived the system of diplomatic ransom that flourished from the Dark Ages until the Renaissance, when kings and princes routinely used ambassadors as hostages. As Brandeis Sociologist Richard Sennett puts it: "The terrorism of today is the diplomacy of Henry the Eighth...
...Argentina is not yet seriously threatened, but the country's military regime has been under siege by half a dozen different terrorist groups. Most of them style themselves not as Maoist or Castroite but as Peronist "protectors of the people," and they number no more than 100 or 200 men each. Last July, former President Pedro Aramburu was killed by a Peronist group calling itself the Monteneros (for "hired guns"). The generals are now talking about outflanking the "Peronists," many of whom are downright bandits, by inviting old Dictator Juan Perón himself to return from Madrid after 15 years...
There is every indication that their numbers will increase rather than decline. No elections are in sight in Brazil or Argentina, and Peru's ruling junta suggests that it may take 30 years to accomplish the reforms it has in mind. Though Venezuela, Colombia and Costa Rica remain healthy, functioning democracies, Uruguay, the erstwhile "Switzerland of Latin America," is beset by a vicious brand of urban terrorism and worsening economic problems. In neighboring Chile, the Congress is preparing to vote into power the first freely elected Marxist government in world history (see cover story...
...former U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States, "the U.S. role in this entirely Chilean affair is to keep hands off-entirely." After all, Linowitz notes, "Chile is in this hemisphere, and we should be no more disturbed about Allende in Chile than about the military dictatorships of Argentina and Brazil. What kind of a double standard do we have...
...ARGENTINA. Increasingly, the country's right-wing junta feels surrounded by sources of political contagion-the terrorist movement in Uruguay, the leftist military junta in Bolivia, and now a Communist threat on the other side of Argentina's rugged Andean frontier. The Argentines have no plans to charge into Chile, but they are keeping in close touch with Peru's generals in an effort to make ready for anything. One military man in Buenos Aires predicts that clashes will break out on the Argentine-Chilean border within 15 months. A former Argentine foreign minister says that...