Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gold-and-white portals of the opulent high-rise at 2095 Libertador Avenue in Buenos Aires, men with pistols bulging under their open vests flank the doorway. Before anyone is allowed into the building, the guards check via walkie-talkie with the building's most prominent resident: Argentina's new Ambassador-at-Large, Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat. She is the country's richest woman, with an estimated net worth of more than $1 billion. "I hate bodyguards," she apologizes, as she escorts a visitor into the elegance of her Louis XVI salon in a duplex apartment on the uppermost floors...
...planned. In the summer, I'll go to Europe. In the winter, Argentina and Brazil. The big project will be trying to write a book about soccer in Latin America. After all, he's the one who's paying...
...Argentina and Britain are still the Hatfields and the McCoys when it comes to the issue of sovereignty over the Falklands. But at least the two nations have agreed to abandon their antagonism and settle most of their remaining differences. After three days of talks in Madrid, Argentina announced last week that it was formally ending its state of hostility with Britain, seven years after London made a similar gesture...
...resumption of consular ties, restoration of air and sea links between London and Buenos Aires and the lifting of all financial restrictions between the two countries. Britain also removed its prohibition on Argentine merchant and fishing ships within a 150- mile radius of the Falklands and agreed to help Argentina repair economic links with the European Community...
That night, I met Marcelo Carrera, a mediocre player from Argentina who scored the winning goal for the Strikers. While he struggled to answer the questions of other reporters in English, I began to talk to him in Spanish. He was delighted. I was estatic...