Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Argentina's messy bankbooks
...Argentina $37 billion or $43 billion in debt? Last week Argentine leaders were asking that billion-dollar question. Only three weeks after an international rescue squad of public and private lenders had saved Argentina from missing the deadline for a $500 million interest payment, that country's finances appeared to be a more confusing mess than ever...
Ambassador Kirkpatrick, a specialist in Latin America, vehemently opposed an approach that condemned Argentina and supported Britain. Such a policy, she told the President, would buy the U.S. a hundred years of animosity in Latin America. In general, I held the same views as Mrs. Kirkpatrick on broad issues and most specific ones. In the Falklands crisis, however, our positions were irreconcilable-not because of any personal issue or special taste...
With heavy meaning, Galtieri then told me, "I cannot fail to express to you that I have received offers of aircraft, pilots and armaments from countries not of the West. Last night at midnight, a Cuban plane arrived in Buenos Aires carrying Emilio Aragones Navarro, the Cuban Ambassador to Argentina, who brought an urgent letter to me from Fidel Castro." That the Soviets, despite their preoccupations in Poland and Afghanistan, should have sent the Cubans to scout a target of opportunity as tempting as Argentina was hardly astonishing. At one point, Galtieri confided that the Russians had insinuated that they...
...return to Argentina, I found its leaders still incredulous at Britain's resolve. "I am truly surprised," said Costa Méndez, "that the British will...