Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like hundreds of his fellow American businessmen in Argentina, Ford Executive John Albert Swint, 56, lived in fear. Marauding bands of guerrillas have turned terrorism into a fact of life for the relatively rich and powerful in the country, especially around the industrial center of Cordoba, 450 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, which has become known as "the capital of terrorism...
Until this attack, the bloodiest yet, businessmen generally had been kidnaped and returned unharmed by the terrorists after paying ransoms that have added up to an estimated $20 million in a year. So far this year there have been more than 160 reported kidnapings in Argentina, including nine foreigners -three of them Americans...
Careful observers of Juan Perón's inauguration ceremonies in Buenos Aires' ornate Government House last month would have seen clues to the way that the 78-year-old caudillo planned to run Argentina. For one thing, Perón wore his general's uniform for the first time since he was stripped of his rank 18 years ago. For another, former President Hector Cámpora was not even invited to Government House...
...moved quickly and adroitly to consolidate his relations with Argentina's generals. The separate commands of the armed forces were abolished shortly before the inaugural. Perón now is in direct command of the entire military, a position that should allow him to suppress any potential revolt before it gets very far. He also launched "Operation Dorrego," a flood-relief project in which army units worked with Peronist youth to reclaim lands ruined by disastrous floods earlier this year. Significantly, a "provisional council" has been set up and is charged with "ideological purification" of the Justicialist Party. What...
...commanding 64% of the legislature on his side and his political opposition is both divided and ineffectual. The immediate danger is that Perón's get-tough policy against the left could backfire, plunging Argentina into a bitter round of ideological warfare. In recent weeks, there have been new clashes within the Justicialist movement between left-and right-wing Peronists. Last week the armed forces came under attack. A member of the general staff of the infantry was kidnaped by the Marxist-Leninist People's Revolutionary Army, which announced that attacks against the "repressive armed forces" will...