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...disappointment of many Argentines, omitted any direct reference to another category of victims: the desaparecidos. The "disappeared ones," variously estimated to number from 6,000 to 24,000, vanished during the military regime's "dirty war" against left-wing terrorism during the late 1970s. The junta, for its part, had returned at least a few beloved ones, if not desaparecidos, to their families, having released 128 prisoners outright and 116 more on parole in an amnesty honoring the papal visit. The government denied that those released were political prisoners, but all had been held without charge at the pleasure...
...John Paul ground through the first day of his exhausting 32-hour visit-first to address Argentine clergy at the capital's Metropolitan Cathedral, later in the morning to meet with other members of the junta at the presidential Casa Rosada-some Argentines sought to add luster to their own causes through the Pope's presence. Most audaciously, ardent followers of the populist policies of the late Dictator Juan Perón wanted to gain political capital from the major papal appearance of the day. That was an afternoon Mass at the venerable basilica of Our Lady...
Rios Montt fires his junta partners and seizes the presidency...
...Brigadier General Jose Efrain Rios Montt, 55, a born-again member of the California-based Christian Church of the Word. Montt took it as God's call in March that he leave the church school where he was academic director (TIME, April 5) and join the three-man junta that had been picked to run the country by the junior officers who ousted General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia. In an equally swift maneuver, Rios Montt last week fired the other two members of the junta, and expressing thanks to God for having put him in command, proclaimed himself President...
...Americans simply because of the fact that our nationhood is still in question. In New York, Paris or London, no one loses sleep asking themselves whether the nation exists. In Latin America you can wake up and find that the nation s no longer there, usurped by a military junta, a multinational corporation or an American ambassador surrounded by a jevy of technical advisers. That the junta in Buenos Aires, acting under the impression that it had been given the green light by the [Reagan Administration] in exchange for mercenary services in the destabilization of Nicaragua, should have so perverted...