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Last week's grim discoveries of "desa-parecidos"surprised no one in Argentina. From 1976 to 1979, during the military's "dirty war" against suspected subversives, at least 6,000 people disappeared, victims of death squads that often operated with official sanction. What gave Argentines hope was their new civilian government's apparent determination to bring to justice those responsible for 7½ years of brutal repression under military rule...
...President Raúl Alfonsín's first acts after his Dec. 10 inauguration was to decree that nine military junta members, including former Presidents Jorge Rafael Videla, Roberto Viola and Leopoldo Galtieri, be brought before the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Argentina's highest military court. In court-martial proceedings that began last week, they were accused of mass murder and torture of civilians. Alfonsin also signed a bill repealing an amnesty law proclaimed by the outgoing military government that would have absolved the armed forces of responsibility for the atrocities of the "dirty...
...people the United States shall enter, then we are going to have some really terrible wars." She opposed U.S. reprisal attacks in Lebanon, where Britain had contributed 100 men to the 6,000-member Multi-National Force, and criticized Washington's decision to resume arms sales to Argentina...
...petroleum prices and the sharp drop in U.S. interest rates helped ease pressure on many developing nations that are struggling under enormous and dangerous debt loads, but their finances remain shaky. Two weeks ago, the new government of Argentina requested a six-month grace period for interest payments on its $40 billion debt. A team of bankers and troubleshooters from the International Monetary Fund approved a $10 billion emergency loan package in November that once again saved Brazil from defaulting on its $91 billion debt, but the country's economy is deeply depressed and has been plagued all year...
Peering over his half-moon reading glasses during a hastily arranged television broadcast, Argentina's newly elected President, Raúl Alfonsín, last week made the most dramatic announcement of his young administration. In the dry tones of a country lawyer, Alfonsín told his nationwide audience that he was sending to Congress a measure pressing charges of murder and torture against the leaders of three military juntas that waged the antiterrorist "dirty war" of the 1970s. During that period, at least 6,000 Argentine citizens disappeared. "The past casts a shadow over our future...