Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...across the country, from the presidential palace to the tiniest hovel, Chileans watched and listened to what the Pontiff said and how he said it. While the visit was only one stop in a two-week South American tour that also included Uruguay and Argentina, the six-day Chilean stay was the centerpiece. The question on everyone's lips: What would the activist Pope tell his authoritarian host and oppressed flock? Pinochet, 71, is one of South America's two remaining military dictators.* A practicing Roman Catholic, as are 10 million of Chile's 12 million people, he has ruled...
...shadowy world of cloak-and-dagger spy operations, tiny Israel for years ranked as a world-class player. Agents of MOSSAD, the country's equivalent of the CIA, electrified the world in 1960 by capturing Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann and spiriting him out of Argentina under the noses of authorities. The intelligence network cast by MOSSAD and Shin Bet, Israel's FBI, was so exhaustive in the Middle East that Washington often relied on it for information and analysis. Even when the objectives of Israel's spooks were debatable, their methods virtually defined professionalism and supersecrecy...
...many Nazis who dodged prosecution after the war and escaped to the West have lived ordinary lives, camouflaged by new identities. Demjanjuk is the first suspected Nazi to be extradited and brought to trial in Israel. (Eichmann was not brought to Israel through extradition proceedings. He was captured in Argentina by the Israeli secret service...
...debt. If the suspension of those payments goes on for long, it would be a direct hit on the earnings of dozens of major banks in the U.S. and Western Europe. It could set a perilous precedent for other major Latin American debtors, including Mexico ($105 billion owed) and Argentina ($52.3 billion). But as disturbing as Sarney's decision was, Brazil's deepening economic woes and dwindling currency reserves made it almost inevitable...
...openly. Weapons-manufacturing companies take the remaining business, drumming up sales through their agents. The manufacturers require the approval of their governments, which may or may not be easy to get. Some governments, notably those of the U.S. and West Germany, tightly control arms exports. Others, prominently including Brazil, Argentina and South Korea, have acquired a reputation for selling to just about anybody. In the West, France has a relatively unrestricted client list; the Soviet Union supplies weapons to leftist governments and revolutionary movements throughout the world...