Word: argentina
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...From Argentina's subtropical north to the blustery Strait of Magellan, campaign banners straddled the streets and radios blared political slogans. Last week 10 million people went to the polls in what should have been a minor off-year congressional election. Only 99 of 192 seats were at stake in the Chamber of Deputies. But the election was far from routine, as Argentines demonstrated once more that the strongest force in Argentina's murky present is the ghost of its past: exiled Dictator Juan Domingo...
...decision seems to be that Illia's "government of reconciliation" is not enough for Argentina's restless citizens. Since taking office 17 months ago, Illia has allowed the debts, wages, prices and everything else to soar, while hoping that the basically rich wheat-and-beef economy would somehow work itself out of trouble. It has not, and many Argentines, searching for leadership, yearn for the days when El Lider was in power...
...same more or less applies in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and every diplomat - U.S. or otherwise - considers it part of the game to build up a nest egg by importing and reselling a car every two or three years. When he left his post last year, one ambassador put two cars on the market, one of them a Lincoln Continental; another departing embassy official unloaded a three-year-old Buick...
Fleet & Fiery. Top prize of 40,000 zlotys ($1,667) went to Argentina's Martha Argerich, who won by an eyelash over Brazil's Arturo Moreira-Lima. The Polish audiences, who packed Warsaw's splendorous Philharmonic Hall for each session of the grueling three-week contest, took issue with the judges, awarded their longest, loudest ovations to 24-year-old Edward Auer (fifth) from Los Angeles, the first American ever to gain the finals in the prestigious competition for young pianists (age limit: 30). Auer captured the audience's fancy with his bashful manner...
...along complaints to governments involved. Any member of the pact can unilaterally exempt specific products from patent protection; Italy has done so with Pharmaceuticals, thus enabling Italian firms to copy the world's new drugs as fast as they are invented. Several big nations, such as India, Pakistan, Argentina and Chile, remain outside the system, some of them figuring that they invent too little to profit from it. Nor does the pact protect artistic or literary copyrights, which come under the Bern Convention-to which the Russians still refuse to subscribe...