Word: junta
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...Argentina's troops return, the junta is in disarray...
Argentina's three-man ruling junta was riven over the choice of a new President to succeed Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, the army general who was forced to resign after his troops surrendered to the British two weeks ago. Following five days of bickering, army Major General Cristino Nicolaides, the junta's newest member, ignored navy and air force objections and endorsed retired Major General Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone, 54, as the country's seventh military President in six years. Said Bignone, who was scheduled to be sworn in this week: "I am absolutely certain that with...
...Argentine junta claims it is fighting colonialism. In this instance it is the Argentines who are the colonialists. They have conquered by force an island whose people do not want Argentine rule...
...forever, as much as two-thirds of the British navy will be bobbing in the South Atlantic, and NATO will be looking to the U.S. for yet more money and more ships. Unless Britain uses the moment wisely, Argentina may also be radicalized out of reach, rejecting its bumbling junta but also rejecting some of its bumbling Western friends. The U.S. must repair its relationship with the region as well, in which, unlike Britain, it has permanent interests...
...rest of his life." That outraged judgment seemed far from fair in a country that has been teaching its children for more than a century that the Malvinas, as the islands are known in Latin America, are Argentine. Says José Dumas, a business consultant: "It was the junta as a whole that made the decisions. Galtieri is the sacrificial lamb...