Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest victim of the most cynical superpower diplomacy of which Henry Kissinger is the outstanding Western exponent ... The meaning of that 'Peace with Honor,' now revealed, strips Henry Kissinger of his own honor." In Latin America, there is scant enthusiasm for Kissinger's scheduled trip to Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela this week. A former Argentine ambassador to the U.S. remarked: "No one down here is thinking that Ford and Kissinger are going to come up with anything new. As far as we're concerned, Kissinger and Ford are already lame ducks...
Since she took office after the death of her husband last July, Argentina's President Isabel Perón has been bedeviled by leftist guerrillas, rightist extremists, angry farmers and restive labor unions. Lately her government has seemed on the verge of foundering. Some diplomatic observers have even predicted a military takeover. Yet last week Mrs. Perón received an unexpected vote of confidence...
Since November, Argentina has been under an official "state of siege."In February, the army ended its two-year hibernation in barracks by deploying some 3,500 soldiers to scour the northwestern jungles of Tucumán province for leftist guerrillas. The government's muscle flexing has not been limited to terrorists. Five moderately left-wing provincial governors have been removed from office by executive decree. The universities have been purged of thousands of dissident professors. Steelworkers at Villa Constitución, the industrial center north of Buenos Aires, have been on strike for four weeks to protest...
Claiming that the bank is the largest United States investor in Argentina, the group chanted "The First National's investments support political murder." Ruth Robinson, a spokeswoman for the group, said over 100 political murders have been covered up by Argentina's military dictatorship in the last three months...
Ernest D. Wamba, lecturer on Afro-American Studies, was listed by the group as a sponsor of the demonstration, but he said yesterday that he had not agreed to be a sponsor, although he said that he is concerned about political repression in Argentina...