Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pragmatic. Last year the U.S. reluctantly agreed to permit the shipment to Cuba of some $80 million worth of automobiles manufactured by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler in their Argentine subsidiaries. That decision, however, was purely pragmatic. The Buenos Aires government had warned that if such permission were denied, Argentina would expropriate the U.S.-owned production lines. Last week's action-taken only three days before the foreign ministers of the world's nonaligned nations were due to begin a conference in Lima-merely extended the previous ruling to cover all U.S. firms with foreign subsidiaries...
...increase is not limited to the U.S. In Latin America, particularly Argentina, there have been scores of kidnapings by political extremists in the past year. Quite a few of them have netted million-dollar ransoms (one brought $60 million), usually intended for the purchase of terrorist weapons. In Europe, political abductions have multiplied over the past few years in Germany, and kidnapings for money have been concentrated among the wealthier classes in Italy. There have already been 39 Italian cases this year, compared with 41 during all of 1974, and Milan Police Chief Mario Massagrande gloomily says, "I am afraid...
...very good health, just like Argentina." That was the sanguine remark of Josó López Rega, Argentina's star-gazing gray eminence, as he arrived last week in Madrid, supposedly to become a special ambassador from Buenos Aires in Europe. In fact, his comment was inaccurate in almost every respect...
...Rega had just been forced to resign as Minister of Social Welfare and personal secretary to President Isabel Perón-the positions that had made him the most powerful man in Argentina. Mrs. Perón, who has erratically governed the country since the death of her husband a year ago, was clearly in poor physical and emotional health. Argentina seemed to be teetering ever closer to economic collapse...
...someone does not provide soon, Argentina's constitutional system will be in grave danger. Last week dozens of terrorist bombings shook Buenos Aires, leaving one dead and several wounded. Six police stations were also attacked. So far, the armed forces have obediently stayed in their barracks. Still, sources close to the military acknowledge that chaos in the streets, coupled with continued failure of the civilian government to head off economic ruin, could eventually provoke a coup...