Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Germany, home of the defending World Cup champions, one of the most popular songs on the hit parade is a ditty called Buenos Días, Argentina. It features the 22 members of the German national team themselves, and despite the fact that it is, well, awful, the record is expected to sell a million copies by kickoff time. Some 5,000 German fans had bought tickets for the World Cup event at prices ranging from $200 to $333 per seat, and were cheerfully anteing up as much as $3,000 each for air fare and accommodations besides. German...
...since the Highlanders are the only United Kingdom squad in the Cup finals. At Westminster, M.P.s were forced to break with a tradition of holding parliamentary by-elections on Thursdays, when one at Hamilton, near Glasgow, conflicted with World Cup opening ceremonies. Faced with a $2,500 airfare to Argentina, a number of frugal Scottish supporters flew to New York City and hitchhiked south, and at least two made the trip on bicycles...
...merely high spirits, however. The choice of Argentina as the World Cup venue, a decision made in 1966, has drawn strong criticism from human rights activists. One reason: the widespread operation in Argentina of rightwing death squads searching for members of the left-wing Montoneros terrorist units that have plagued the country for the past eight years. Amnesty International has launched a campaign against alleged torture used by government officials on Argentine political prisoners, and is backed by, among others, the West German Protestant Church. Anti-Argentina protesters in France bombed a travel agency offering World Cup tours. An assailant...
...military government of Argentine President Jorge Rafáel Videla is banking heavily on the World Cup as a means of burnishing the country's international image. Argentina has invested some $700 million in building the soccer stadiums, refurbishing airports and repairing local highways. Meanwhile, the Argentine military is winning its war of extermination with terrorists, despite the stubborn remnant of Montoneros. To counter its police-state image, the government has reduced its intended security allotment of 5,000 police and soldiers for Buenos Aires...
...which has provided no comfort for Argentina's pre-eminent master of poetry and prose, Jorge Luis Borges. Appalled at the prospect of weeks of soccer mania, he says he is leaving Buenos Aires for the World Cup duration. Usually a staunch Anglophile, Borges has even turned against the British. Why? "They have introduced stupidities such as football...