Word: argentinas
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...plea from Argentina's military rulers was a strange one, and bore signs of more than a little desperation. In a discreet radio and television announcement, the junta that has ruled the country since 1976 urged Argentine civilians to show "greatness of spirit," "patriotism" and "definitive national unity." Then the military government itemized a list of 15 topics on which it would like to see concertación (understanding) with local politicians, union leaders and perhaps even the Roman Catholic Church before the government fulfills a promise to return the nation to civilian rule in March 1984. The list...
...Figueiredo has reason to feel sympathy for political exiles. As a boy, he spent years in Argentina because his father, also a general, had fled Brazil in 1938 after failing in an attempt to overthrow Brazilian Populist Dictator Getulio Vargas...
...grown corn, one-half of its soybeans and two-thirds of its wheat. But demand is lagging in the face of the worldwide recession, stiffer competition from other countries and the strong dollar, which makes American-produced goods more expensive and the crops from Canada and Argentina more appetizing. As a result, U.S. exports have fallen for the first time since 1969. Corn sales abroad, for instance, have declined by fully one-third. The Government estimates that the value of agricultural shipments dropped to $39.1 billion in the 1982 fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, down from $43.8 billion last...
Most economists doubt the West can agree on sanctions that would truly hurt the Soviets. Says Richard Kaufman, a Soviet expert with the Congressional Joint Economic Committee: "The U.S. cannot build an economic wall around the Soviet Union." Moscow evaded the U.S. grain embargo by boosting imports from Argentina, Australia and Canada...
...dale High School. At Amherst College, Hoffman followed his scientific bent, majoring in Astronomy, and graduating first in his class,summa cum laude. Then, without skipping a beat, Hoffman arrived at Harvard to embark on three years of gamma ray research. This work took him as far away as Argentina, where he experimented with a balloon-borne gamma-ray observatory that he designed and built...