Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some human touches creeping in around the edges of the totalitarian master design−it will be a great capital in 1990 when it gets past 1984. From the plane, a fabulous fiery sunset over the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, lights coming on in Uruguay and Argentina on either side of the river. Another sunset, seen from sea level, the eye drawn up walls of ocher, rust and dusty rose to the snow fields on the crest of the Chilean Andes. Everywhere, people of charm, energy, talent, incorrigibly attracted to non-Anglo-Saxon forms of government...
...stop. You point out that if you stayed the fortnight you would wish in Country A, you couldn't go on to B and C, and how long has it been, by the way, since your new Brazilian friend was in Chile, or your Peruvian lunch companion in Argentina? A long time, it usually turns out, and sometimes never. This conversation, all the way around the continent, serves as a steady reminder that South America still is more of an entity on the map than in the minds of the South Americans...
...regime says these figures are greatly exaggerated; a few abuses have taken place (Pinochet says twelve officers were recently jailed for mistreating prisoners). In any case, firm measures are needed to deal with the guerrilla threat: look at Argentina, where leftist terrorists are assassinating and kidnaping people every...
...this does not mean Latin Hitlers or Stalins. You can have freewheeling political conversations in Chile, Peru, Brazil and Argentina. The press has considerable freedom in Argentina, some in Brazil and Peru, and a bit in Chile. In Peru, there is a legally active opposition party, though it has no election to get ready...
...strikes cost Chrysler U.K. 2 million man-hours of work. The company lost $37 million last year, and another $34 million in the first half of 1975; those losses contributed to a worldwide Chrysler deficit of $232 million during the first nine months of this year. Even in Argentina, where Chrysler's subsidiary has been doing relatively well, the company put forth a plan last week to sell 60% of its operation to local citizens over the next five years. Economic and political conditions have been worrisome, and the company hopes a new infusion of capital will double production...