Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swept-back hair, but the cosmetic is not enough. Juan Domingo Perón, almost 78, looks his age -and feels it. He tires easily; he has trouble concentrating. Yet he must try to marshal his failing faculties. Nearly two decades after he was run out of Argentina, a deposed, despised despot, Peron is home again, exalted again, in charge again of one of the richest countries in Latin America...
...abroad that would be regarded as a crime against the state if done in Israel. Coupled with the established precedent that it is irrelevant how a defendant is brought before a court-a precedent reinforced in the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who was kidnaped by Israeli agents in Argentina and tried in Israel-the new law appears to make Israel self-appointed policeman of its own interests throughout the world...
...shortages are tilting international balances of economic power, bringing new prosperity to such exporters of raw materials as Australia, Brazil and Argentina, and fanning inflation in the U.S., Europe and Japan. The situation stems largely from a temporary combination of foul weather for crops and metal miners' strikes in Chile and Zambia. But trouble may not be short-lived. World reserve stocks of many major farm goods have been so badly depleted that years of bumper harvests will be needed to rebuild them. The scarcities are also having a snowballing effect; a shortage in one commodity aggravates shortages...
...global import demand calculated at 65 million tons. The Soviet Union will be buying wheat again because it is falling below its harvest target, though less disastrously than in 1972. The Common Market last month banned all exports of wheat from its nine member countries until further notice. Argentina, normally an exporter, bought wheat in the U.S. last week because it has overcommitted its crop...
...Argentina, much the same situation seems to prevail. Peron is actually moving to the right, relying on his conservative advisers and jettisoning the left-wing support that played such an important role in bringing him back to power...