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Kirchner opponents wary of the Venezuelan President's cozy relations with Cuba and Iran have seized on an issue that may slow down what seemed to be Senator Kirchner's inevitable rise to the Presidency. The daily Clarin, Argentina's most widely read newspaper, carried an op-ed piece by one of its top editors, Ricardo Kirschbaum, calling the suitcase affair "one of the greatest misfortunes" in Mrs. Kirchner's campaign, stating that "Hugo Chavez is one of the core themes in the electoral campaign...
...clandestine detention centers during the dictatorship. His apparent abduction has sent a chill down the spines of many Argentines, unsettled by memories of the state of terror imposed by the military in the 1970s. Lopez's disappearance "has touched a sensitive nerve in society," said an editorial in Clarin, Argentina's largest-selling newspaper. "It revives fears of one of the darkest episodes in Argentine history...
...Vatican, Pope John Paul II asked an audience of thousands to pray for the American astronauts. He said that the tragedy had "provoked deep sorrow in my soul." In Buenos Aires, Cartoonist Dobal used his space in the Clarin to write, "I can't give you a joke because, dear reader, all my space is filled with infinite pain." Japan's public TV extended its popular 45- minute evening news program to an hour and devoted it all to the space accident. The Jerusalem Post noted editorially that "Americans take their risks in front of grandstands and television cameras...
...rambling interview published in the mass-circulation Buenos Aires Clarin, Galtieri revealed just how I little he understood U.S. and British attitudes prior to the invasion. Blind to the close ties that bind the U.S. and Britain, Galtieri had managed to convince himself that his cordial relations with the Reagan Administration meant that the U.S. would remain neutral. "I was North America's pampered child," Galtieri said. He also admitted that "we would never have invaded" if he had known that the U.S. would eventually give logistical support to the British forces after the failure of Secretary of State...
...pleased with Nixon's approach, which was less condescending than past U.S. attitudes. "The U.S. today is much less certain that it understands the realities of life in Latin America," said Campos. "That is a healthy recognition." More characteristic, however, was the complaint aired by the Chilean paper Clarin, which claimed that "frustration was the sentiment after the speech...