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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SUNDAY WAS INDEED a happy Easter for Argentinians, whose president, Raul Alfonsin, convinced rebel army officers to abort a plan to launch an offensive against the nations's still fragile democracy. For four days, the officers had plotted in a military compound outside the capital. Alfonsin proved that even in blood-soaked Latin America, the power of suasion can exceed the power of arms. The peaceful victory offers others in a war-torn world an eloquent lesson...
Alfosin earlier flew by helicopter to the army base and said he met with the mutineers' leader, ex-Lt. Col. Aldo Rico, at a neutral site within the sprawling wooded compound...
...treasonous acts attributed to the Marine guards were bad enough. But most of Washington was also belatedly aroused by the long-known and festering problem of the new U.S. embassy compound in Moscow, which was nearing completion when work was halted in 1985. Built from prefabricated sections produced off the site -- and out of sight of any U.S. inspectors -- the chancery, not surprisingly, was found riddled with embedded snooping gear. Charged Texas Republican Congressman Dick Armey: "It's nothing but an eight- story microphone plugged into the Politburo...
Then commenced the extended bargaining over construction. By 1972 a compromise had taken shape. The interior decoration and finishing of each compound would be overseen by the country's own teams, but the major construction would be the responsibility of the host country. The intelligence community balked at allowing the Soviets to build the embassy's walls. But President Nixon, who was pursuing a policy of detente with Moscow, instructed the State Department to cut the deal...
...diplomat later said it would be "the dumbest thing in the world" to assume the walled compound was free of KGB bugs...