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Nikolayev and Sevastyanov seemed little handicapped by the problem. From about 150 miles above the earth, they took an optical fix on Lake Viedma, high in the Andes of southern Argentina. Ground trackers performed equally well. Using new radio navigational gear, they were able to track Soyuz to within about a yard of its actual path. Indeed, the flight went so well that the cosmonauts took time out from their 16-hour work days-exercises, photographic experiments, spacecraft check-outs -to battle ground crews in a longdistance chess match (which ended in a draw on the 36th move...
...pursuit of this goal, Ongania began to solicit the support of the labor unions, many of which are still dominated by the totalitarian principles of the long-deposed Juan Peron. Ongania's appeal to the unions and entrepreneurs angered the army generals, who consider themselves the guardians of Argentina's welfare. At a meeting last month the generals barraged the President with complaints about his dictatorial designs. When one young general complained of a "lack of dialogue," Ongania replied, "But we are having a dialogue now." "We are not," snapped the general. "You are lecturing us, and besides...
Ongania was unpopular with civilians and military alike for his stubborn authoritarianism. His generals called him "El Cano" (The Pipe), because, as one officer explained it, "He is very straight, but also very hollow." He did manage to curb Argentina's dangerous inflation, which dropped from 26.7% in 1966 to 6.5% last year. He won the gratitude of foreign businessmen by allowing repatriation of profits and by inviting the return of foreign oil companies whose exploration contracts had been canceled by his civilian predecessor, President Arturo Umberto Illia...
Force Brig. General Carlos A. Rey, appointed a brother officer to the Presidency. He is Brig. General Roberto Marcelo Levingston, who has been serving as Argentina's representative on the InterAmerican Defense Board, headquartered in Washington...
Only two weeks after the kidnaping of General Aramburu in Argentina, West Germany's Ambassador to Brazil, Ehrenfried von Holleben, was seized by terrorists in Rio de Janeiro. The Brazilian government, which had released 15 political prisoners in return for the life of U.S. Ambassador C. Burke El-brick last September, agreed to release 40 prisoners for Von Holleben...