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...meantime, European protests against the pipeline sanctions poured into Washington-including one from Foreign Minister Emilio Colombo of Italy, a country with which the U.S. has no serious foreign policy disputes. As he read the plaints and monitored reports of renewed fighting in Lebanon, Haig grew increasingly morose. By midweek he was again thinking of resigning-not knowing that this was exactly what his adversaries at the White House wanted...
...Cuba, too, the Falklands present an opportunity to insinuate itself with Argentina and other Latin American neighbors after years of isolation. Havana's ambassador to Buenos Aires, Emilio Aragones Navarro, went so far as to say that "we ought to be fighting. The cause of the Malvinas is the cause of Cuba, of Latin America and of the Third World." Yet despite the self-serving rhetoric of the Soviets and their clients, the majority view is that the Falklands will not inflate into an East-West showdown. "Frankly, I do not see the danger of this escalating to that...
...none since. With that in mind, the Reagan Administration has endorsed the sale of arms to Argentina, banned by Congress since 1978, and last week supported loans to the junta by international development banks. But the memory of the terror is still raw, and Argentina, in the words of Emilio Mignone, one of the country's leading human rights activists, is "a country living with its ghosts...
Among Timerman's most eloquent supporters is Argentine Human Rights Leader Emilio Mignone. On a visit to New York City last week, he insisted that "Timerman has told the total truth." Said Mignone: "All political prisoners or dissidents have a hard time of it when they are arrested, but the Jews suffer more than the others. They get the worst beatings, the crudest torture, the vilest insults. The important thing about Timerman is that he spoke up; that is the best policy in facing a repressive regime...
...were suspected to mark the re-emergence of the October 1 Antifascist Resistance Group (GRAPO), a mysterious organization described by the authorities as ultraleftist, that has surfaced sporadically in recent years. In the gun battle that followed González de Suso's assassination, police wounded and captured Emilio Gomez Gomez, 28, allegedly a member of GRAPO. One of the two assailants in the Barcelona killings reportedly was among five GRAPO militants who staged a spectacular escape from a maximum-security prison in Zamora 17 months...