Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign debt that is estimated to be as high as $150 billion; international conferences resound with cries for a moratorium or stretch-out of repayments on a large part of that debt. By mid-1976 U.S. banks alone had some $30 billion in outstanding loans to five nations-Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Indonesia-that are considered potential problem debtors. The Zaïrian debacle increases doubts about how much of the Third World debt will continue to be repaid...
...Argentina, since last March's military coup seven priests, two seminarians and three nuns have been murdered by suspected right-wing death squads with ties to the police. In addition, a bishop who was investigating the murders was killed in a suspicious automobile crash...
...that all Catholic leaders are fighting the state. In Argentina the bishops and centrist priests have been reluctant to criticize the new military government, which is striving with great difficulty to re-establish public order. Moreover, the church's authority has been weakened by the past involvement of a group of Argentine Third World Movement priests with left-wing Peronist guerrillas...
...said he will fly to Argentina next week on behalf of Amnesty International to study what he called the "repressive situation" there, and added that he may introduce legislation in Congress that would ban all economic aid to the government of Argentina...
...There isn't a thing in that building that Cy Harris didn't kick at least once," says Johnson. "If he wanted it heavier, he got it. He was the boss, and my approach from the start was that if anyone was going to be exiled to Argentina in the morning, it was going to be him, not me." Harris is not going anyplace, except in triumph to Salt Lake City and Bombay to work on new concert halls...