Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ireland, Argentina and Chad, three unrelated cadres of terrorists called international attention to their alleged grievances by kidnaping innocent people and threatening to kill them unless certain concessions were made. The terrorists' actions posed once again the classic dilemma of whether or not to meet extortionists' demands. Governments that refuse to be blackmailed must answer to conscience and public opinion if hostages perish. On the other hand, yielding in the name of humanitarianism may only encourage more terrorism. In either case, the safety of the hostages cannot be assured, as the three incidents testify...
Tears seem to be the hallmark of Isabel Perón's troubled presidency. Fourteen months ago, she led Argentina in an emotional period of mourning for her husband and political mentor, Juan Domingo Perón. More recently, her publicly shed tears have become both a sign of her own increasingly fragile physical and emotional condition and an apt acknowledgment of the problems that her erratic rule has brought to her country. A week ago, when she handed over temporary executive power to Italo Luder, Provisional President of the Argentine Senate, she was choking back tears once again...
Evidently, her doctors hope these diversions will help the overwrought Mrs. Perón take her mind off Argentina's deepening problems, which include an astonishing 234% annual inflation rate. The level of political violence is rising too. Since Mrs. Perón took office, right-and left-wing terrorism has claimed more than 900 lives. Last week's toll was four dead, among them the Defense Ministry's chief of intelligence, who was shot to death as he stood in a check-out line in a Buenos Aires grocery store...
...Arabs. "The condition for Arab aid is support for their fight against Israel," explained a Latin American diplomat. But Egypt, concerned about jeopardizing Kissinger's efforts to reach a new interim peace agreement, opposed the Syrian proposal. So did several Black African countries and others like Singapore, Argentina and Indonesia. In the end, the conference adopted a mild, inconclusive resolution urging Israel to evacuate occupied Arab territory...
...changes in tennis tradition have been for the worse. The millions of dollars in prize money have attracted a gallery of international players. The game that was once dominated by Americans and Australians is now a polyglot sport with stars from Mexico, Argentina, India, Poland, Sweden and Spain. Such varied talent, combined with the switch at Forest Hills from grass to a claylike surface that does not favor the spasmodic serve-and-volley offense, prompted Wimbledon Champion Arthur Ashe to predict last week that multiple upsets would rock this year's Open. Indeed, former Open Champion Stan Smith...