Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of 30 slogan-chanting demonstrators yesterday marched in front of the First National Bank of Boston on Federal Street charging that the bank's investment policy supports a military dictatorship in Argentina...
Each Latin-American nation has its own name for the urban poor--Argentina has its villas miserias, Brazil its favelas. Mexico its colonias proletarias. In Managua, the poor are called "parachutists," because so many of them have "landed" on unoccupied land to erect their shacks and begin the continual search for work that Iured them from the countryside. The wave of migration began about 1950 and has continued to the present; the poor, 70 per cent of them outside the capital, now constitute fully one-half of Managua's 400,000 population...
...ties with Latin America may mildly improve after Kissinger finally visits the hemisphere in April. It should be quite a trip, with Argentina near chaos, Brazil's right-wing government showing some signs of loosening up, Chile under the heel of a regime that replaced Allende (whom the CIA is widely accused of helping to overthrow) and Venezuela angry about a new U.S. law that denies preferential trade treatment to members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Among other recent problems: Ecuador has renewed its sniping at U.S. tuna fishermen, and Colombia and Venezuela restored relations with Cuba despite...
Onassis was not to the villa born. The son of a Greek tobacco merchant, he grew up in the Turkish city of Smyrna. At age 17 he left his family, who by then had fled to Greece, and traveled by steerage to Argentina with less than $60 in his pocket. By the time he was 23, he had parlayed his earnings from odd jobs (such as dishwashing and working as a telephone lineman) into a million-dollar business that included cigarette manufacturing, dealing in rugs, hides and furs, and operating a decrepit tramp freighter. His formula: 20-hour work days...
Halfway around the world, another political kidnaping came to a tragic end. In Cordoba, Argentina last week, Montoneros leftist-Peronist terrorists abducted the honorary U.S. Consul, John P. Egan, 62, from his home. The terrorists demanded that four jailed comrades be released "alive and healthy" by 7 p.m. on Friday-or Egan, a retired Kaiser Industries executive, would be "executed." Both the U.S. embassy and Argentine Foreign Minister Alberto Vignes refused to negotiate with the kidnapers. Late Friday night, on a lonely dirt road outside Cordoba, Egan's body was found riddled with bullets and wrapped in a Montoneros...