Word: isabell
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...office in Greece was slain by three gunmen as he returned home from a Christmas party. In Lebanon, an estimated 250 people were killed and another 400 kidnaped in that country's civil war. In Argentina, more than 85 leftists died in clashes with the army as President Isabel Peron struggled to maintain power (see story page 47). In Ethiopia, another U.S. civilian was kidnaped by Eritrean rebels, bringing to five the number of Americans held by the Eritreans. "We have been saying it for years," observed one intelligence official in Israel, the primary target of Arab terrorist attacks...
Twice last week Argentine President Isabel Perón went on television to tell her people how she had saved them from near disaster. In the first address, she claimed to have ended, without a single casualty, an abortive four-day coup by a faction of air force officers. Then on Christmas Eve she was on the TV screen again, praising the valor of troops who had crushed a massive guerrilla attack on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, and giving the impression that she had the country well in hand...
...happy person." While his disillusioned contemporaries were rebelling brilliantly as expatriates in Paris, Wilder, whose grandfather was a Presbyterian minister, sometimes plotted out his writing during church services, taught contentedly at a New Jersey prep school (Lawrenceville) and ended up a lifelong bachelor sharing a house with his sister Isabel in Hamden, Conn. Rotund, kind and twinkly to the point of Dickensian caricature, he was, as he pointed out, the sort of man whom "news vendors in university towns call 'Professor,' and hotel clerks, 'Doctor...
...this highly favored land, with its 10 ft. of topsoil and 25 million homogeneous people of European descent, achieved such a colossal mess defies understanding. For the past six weeks the word has been that a coup could come any day, with the army taking over from the pathetic Isabel Peron, but there is only modest hope that this would make matters noticeably better...
...Argentina drifts into chaos, union leaders, government officials, diplomats and foreign corporation executives all have reason to fear for their lives. The uncertainty was compounded last week when President Isabel Peron returned home from the hospital amidst persistent rumors that she was about to resign. So far this year more than 700 people have died through political violence, and unofficial estimates put kidnapings at over 250. Largely as a result, Buenos Aires now has 200 or so licensed protection agencies, although most of the business is done by a dozen top firms. One of the largest is Organization Seguridad Integral...