Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that a majority of Congress or the country is prepared to stand by passively while the people of Central America are delivered to totalitarianism." Why not? He seems to have been willing to accept arrests of political dissidents and the lack of free elections in countries like Chile and Argentina...
Literature specialists emphasized that Fuentes is uniquely able to speak for all of Latin-America because, since he grew up in the family of a Mexican diplomat, he has lived in the United States, Chile, Argentina and Brazil, as well as his native Mexico...
Before the United States has to negotiate with extreme cultural, nationalistic and internationalist pressures of both the left and the right in the remotest nations of this hemisphere--Chile and Argentina--in the largest nation--Brazil--and in the closest one--Mexico--it should rapidly, in its own interests as well as ours, negotiate in Central America and the Caribbean...
Thatcher wins support for many reasons, including the "Falklands factor," her display of resolve and determination during Britain's war with Argentina. "She did a good job," says Fire Officer John Oakes, 47, from Timperley in Greater Manchester. "It was about time that somebody stood up to the dictators. If we had let the Falklands go, where would it stop?" Oakes doubts that unemployment will drop under Thatcher, but he still plans to vote Tory this time. "The alternatives," he argues, "are so bad that I have no choice." Others are less impressed. Says Labor Supporter Anthony Pearson...
...confident, almost cocky. She dominates the morning press conference at Conservative Party headquarters; twice during the campaign she has publicly squelched Francis Pym, her Foreign Secretary. Pym's first misstep was to declare on television that he was willing to discuss the future of the Falkland Islands if Argentina drops its belligerence. Thatcher immediately interrupted him with the stern correction, "but not sovereignty, not sovereignty." Pym's second mistake was to note, again on TV, that "landslides on the whole do not produce successful governments." Snapped Thatcher: "I think I can handle a landslide all right...