Word: argentinas
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...sales right behind those of Chrysler itself. Chrysler would get out of the European market completely, except for its 15% share in Peugeot, thus shedding 70% of its foreign production and about a fourth of its worldwide output. Additionally, in the past year the company has sold operations in Argentina and Turkey to local investors; it is dickering to have Japan's Mitsubishi take over at least part of Chrysler Australia and has been trying to induce Volkswagen to buy part of Chrysler Brazil. Chrysler may sell some other Latin American operations...
...Pope takes charge, that issue will be thrown into sharp focus when the Latin American bishops gather at Pueblo, Mexico. Their meeting may produce a dramatic confrontation between go-it-slow churchmen and a restive "liberation" camp that sees opposition to oppression as a Christian duty. A Pope like Argentina's Eduardo Cardinal Pironio, an architect of the progressive bishops' conference of a decade ago, could encourage major initiatives. The issue also arose last month, when the African bishops' symposium issued moral denunciations of governments that are built upon lies, intolerance, political murders and "shameful enrichment of a small class...
John Barnes' biography amplifies the papal declaration. Peronist power was founded on a simple principle: Take from the rich and give to the poor, then take from the poor. Just after World War II this was not difficult. Argentina was fat with hard foreign currency from its exports of wheat and beef. While Juan donated the machismo, Eva provided the cunning and humorless drive. Largely under her direction, the wealth was spread...
Today Peronism is brutally suppressed by Argentina's military government. Yet the mystique of Juan and Eva continues. She, especially, has achieved an international moment of posthumous pop stardom. Evita, a musical based on her life, is now a hit in London, and will probably be brought to Broadway...
...Angeles-based correspondent for the London Sunday Times, treats his subject both forthrightly and fairly. In fact, he is not entirely unsympathetic. The sources of Eva's greeds, hates and demagogic passions are too real to dismiss. Sad is an adjective that often appears in front of Argentina, and this book shows...