Word: argentina
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None of these reasons, unfortunately, is particularly meaningful--or rather, each means far to much. The first approach, for example, can lead directly to the authorization of certain military aid programs whose well-publicized results are to encourage powerful military elites or rulers in some countries (like Pakistan or Argentina) and to offend other governments in neigh-boring countries (like Afghanistan or Thailand). It can also lead to Congressional veto of funds whose usefulness in the immediate bipolar cause is hardly obvious. The second approach has the advantage of subtly prodding the guilt-consciousness of Representatives or their constituents...
...chaos that has been Argentina's lot ever since the ouster of President Arturo Frondizi six months ago was compounded last week by an ugly civil war among the country's ruling military brass. Argentine artillery fired on Argentine tanks; Argentine air force planes strafed Argentine infantrymen. Bewildered civilians wandered through Buenos Aires' streets, sunny in the . South American spring, holding transistor radios to their ears and trying to figure out what they were fighting about...
Unlike most other Latin American republics, Argentina is 90% European-descended, heavily colonized by Germans and Italians, who brought many of their old prejudices to the New World with them. When the first Jewish immigrants arrived from Central Europe in 1860, they became targets for the landed aristocracy, which feared the industrious newcomers. Those old resentments were sharpened in the years after the fall of Dictator Juan Peron, whose policies brought ruin to Argentina's wheat-and-beef oligarchy. In the economic chaos, Argentina's Jewish colony, which now numbers 470,000, the largest in Latin America, still...
Such was the scene last week at a session of Tacuara, a shadowy society of young terrorists who lead a wave of neo-Nazism that is rising in Argentina. Though still minuscule in a nation of 21 million, Tacuara has grown in four years from a handful of fanatics to an estimated 4,000 members. It is chiefly responsible for a growing number of anti-Semitic incidents in a South American nation that has long been troubled by ultranationalism and racial prejudice...
...officers ever learns the identity of its owner. So stringent are the rules protecting depositors-bankers who violate them risk 20,000-franc fines ($4,577 ) and six months in jail-that relatives of Iraq's King Feisal could not touch his account after his assassination, and Argentina's deposed Dictator Juan Peron is still unable to get at the $60 million fortune reportedly cached by his late wife...