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...relaxedly at women or cheerfully playing with pigeons in the park. An April 4 Times editorial implied that Videla's regime was moderate and well intentioned. True, there had been arrests in the first few days, but these were rather selectively aimed at corrupt Peronist functionaries. The contrast with Chile was evident and the efficiency and advance notice of the coup were even treated with touches of good humor...
...finally started and that the arrests are no longer confined to former Peronist bureaucrats but form part of a general crackdown on leftist intellectuals, university professors, students, writers, psychoanalysts, journalists, scientists, and political and union activists. In addition, there is a widespread campaign against leftist political exiles from Chile and other South American countries. Conspicuously little treatment of these roundups has appeared in the U.S. press in the last few weeks...
...seems likely that the Argentine junta, sensitive to the international revulsion against a violent coup comparable to Chile's, decided to act in two stages. First, a moderate period with sporadic arrests and little censorship, then strict censorship and the imposition of a hard, repressive line. Videla, Agosti and Massera count on two things. This carefully orchestrated two-stage process may allow them to carry out repressive measures under less international pressure. Furthermore, the solidarity campaigns organized in the United States, Canada and Europe, which were so successful in saving many Chilean lives, have somehow become exhausted. Almost three years...
...morality and efficiency to the government, wipe out subversion and restore the economy," Videla dissolved the Congress, provincial and municipal legislatures, suspended all political parties, all trade unions, dismissed the justices of the Supreme Court and banned all political activities. A "Legislative Assessment Council" was formed (just as in Chile) which will assist the new rulers in their government. The death penalty was reinstated for attacks on members of the armed forces and a 15 month sentence instituted for acts of political violence...
...measures bode ill for the foreign exiles living in Argentina. A large number of political refugees from right-wing repression in Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil have sought asylum in Argentina over the years. There is nowhere for them to go now in South America except Venezuela and Colombia, and they would be well advised to stay away from the latter. The Chilean secret police force, operating in Argentina, has rounded up 1300 refugees (Garcia Marquez, N.Y. Times 5/8/76) and will probably try to return them to Chile...