Word: argentinas
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...onetime army colonel, Peron developed his political ideas after he visited Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In 1943 he became Argentina's Minister of Labor and Welfare. Perón skillfully used that post to create a power base within Argentina's working class (known as los descamisados, the shirtless ones). Briefly imprisoned by his jealous military colleagues in 1945, Perón was freed when Maria Eva ("Evita") Duarte, who was soon to become his second wife, helped to organize mass demonstrations on his behalf. Elected President a few months...
Peronism was never more than a series of catch phrases to justify Perón's authoritarian rule, extolling nonalignment and a heavy state role in the economy. His economic policies, which poured resources into highly protected, inefficient, state-directed enterprises, depleted Argentina's treasury as the country devoured its foreign exchange earnings from agriculture. In 1955 the military ousted him. Peron eventually settled in Madrid, but he remained in touch with loyal followers back home, encouraging both the right and the left to think that he espoused their goals. In 1973, amid a rising wave of terrorism...
Even before the first shots were fired in the Falkland Islands or the latest round of battling broke out in Lebanon, both Argentina and Israel were staring into economic sinkholes, and Britain was desperately trying to crawl out of one. In economic terms, it was almost the worst of times for the three nations to go to war, but patriotism and nationalism persuaded all three that they had no choice. Now, with a Falklands truce still to be negotiated and peace in Lebanon as seemingly elusive as ever, those who chose to pay the price of waging war must deal...
...doesn't like what has gone up next door: Indiana. He recently called the state "the most miserable in the union," and its capital, Indianapolis, "the dullest large city in the U.S." Royko polled 1,000 of his readers on whether the U.S. should go to war if Argentina were to invade the Hoosier state. According to the columnist, 999 voted no; the sole holdout was undecided. Hoosiers hit back with a booster campaign of T shirts labeled ROYKO WHO? and ROYKO DOME-a swipe at his observation that it is silly for Indianapolis to plan a domed stadium...
...Whoever wins it on July 11 at the long-awaited final game will have to swig the celebratory champagne straight from the bottle. No matter. Two years of elimination matches among 107 nations have left only 24 survivors, including sentimental favorite and host Spain, and defending champion Argentina, to settle Mundial '82: soccer's global championship. And for more fans around the world than watch almost any other organized activity, professional or amateur, it is soccer-footloose of spirit and often fancy of tactic-that is the true champagne of sport...