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...contrast, last week's guerrilla assault on an arsenal nine miles from the capital in the industrial suburb of Monte Chingolo was a hard-fought military engagement that cost at least 115 lives-85 guerrillas, seven government troops, three policemen and 20 civilians. The attack was apparently a joint operation of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), a left-wing guerrilla group that has been fighting government troops for years in Tucuman province, and the Montone-ros, the terrorist arm of left-wing Peronists, who specialize in urban assassinations and high-ransom kidnapings. According to the army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Hanging from the Cliff | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

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