Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about Latin leaders spending huge sums on weapons and then seeking aid to feed their peoples. In 1968 Congress voted against further sales unless the President decided that they were important to the security of the United States. In announcing Nixon's waiver to permit sales to Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela, the Administration put no emphasis on "security" interests. Rogers said that the policy of "paternalism" had not worked...
...supposed to buy surplus remodeled F-5Es. Admittedly they are cheaper than the French Mirage [$1.6 million each, compared with $2.2 million for the Mirage], but this is just a hooker to sell expensive spare parts later." In fact, France has already sold more than 500 Mirages to Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela...
...young Perónists who had gathered in and around Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo. Cámpora's words led to a paroxysm of rioting and looting, during which outgoing President Alejandro Lanusse was spat upon and Antonio Cardinal Caggiano, the 84-year-old primate of Argentina, was jostled when demonstrators rocked...
Before last March's election, the Trotskyites were more or less united with the Perónists in opposition to Argentina's military government. Conceivably the breach could be repaired -although perhaps only by the personal intervention of Perón himself...
...executives unless the company would agree to "donate" $500,000 to a children's hospital and other institutions, and increase the wages of its Argentine employees by 100%. At week's end, Otis had not decided whether to bow to the threat, as did Ford of Argentina (TIME, June 4). The company did, however, evacuate all its executives and their families. The mood of those remaining behind in Argentina's international community was grim. Said one American businessman: "We've been getting threatening calls for months. Now we're listening to them...