Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...merely high spirits, however. The choice of Argentina as the World Cup venue, a decision made in 1966, has drawn strong criticism from human rights activists. One reason: the widespread operation in Argentina of rightwing death squads searching for members of the left-wing Montoneros terrorist units that have plagued the country for the past eight years. Amnesty International has launched a campaign against alleged torture used by government officials on Argentine political prisoners, and is backed by, among others, the West German Protestant Church. Anti-Argentina protesters in France bombed a travel agency offering World Cup tours. An assailant...
...Argentines are all too aware of the possibilities for terrorist violence during the World Cup. In August 1976, as he was on his way to explain at a press conference the workings of the Cup organizing committee, which he had been chosen to head, retired Argentine Army General Omar Actis was ambushed and machine-gunned by Montoneros guerrillas. Montoneros members are known to be discussing the fomenting of demonstrations during the series, though they are also thought by most authorities to have decided that violence in the soccer stadiums themselves (the games will be played at six sites prior...
...military government of Argentine President Jorge Rafáel Videla is banking heavily on the World Cup as a means of burnishing the country's international image. Argentina has invested some $700 million in building the soccer stadiums, refurbishing airports and repairing local highways. Meanwhile, the Argentine military is winning its war of extermination with terrorists, despite the stubborn remnant of Montoneros. To counter its police-state image, the government has reduced its intended security allotment of 5,000 police and soldiers for Buenos Aires...
...which has provided no comfort for Argentina's pre-eminent master of poetry and prose, Jorge Luis Borges. Appalled at the prospect of weeks of soccer mania, he says he is leaving Buenos Aires for the World Cup duration. Usually a staunch Anglophile, Borges has even turned against the British. Why? "They have introduced stupidities such as football...
...Argentina. Austria, Brazil, France, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Scotland. Spain. Sweden, Tunisia, West Germany. At the start of the series, the three teams most favored to win the Cup were West Germany, Brazil and Argentina...