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Businessmen launch a campaign to seize power from the junta...
...number of thoroughly documented "disappearances" dwindled to twelve in 1980 and, according to the U.S. State Department, there have been 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...
...President, Maria Estela Martinez de Perón, 49, after five years of detention. A onetime cabaret dancer, she assumed power after the death in 1974 of her husband, Dictator Juan Domingo Perón, but proved to be woefully incompetent and was jailed in 1976 by the military junta for misusing public property. The military finally arranged her release to remove a rallying point for her still loyal followers, who remain the most potent civilian political force in the country. As the ex-President was sped under close guard from a courthouse to her suburban retreat 25 miles outside...
...that a new Holocaust may be in the making there. Said Mario Gorenstein, president of the Delegation of Jewish Associations of Argentina, in a pointed reference to Timerman: "We don't seek to have publicity spectaculars." Other Argentine Jews suggested that Timerman has exaggerated their plight under the junta, thus making things worse for them. Following the lead of Argentine Jewry, influential U.S. Jewish leaders have downplayed the bombings of synagogues, the proliferation of virulent anti-Semitic literature and the discrimination against Jews in government service in Argentina...
...other Argentine men, women and children. Timerman's critics, however, have questioned some of the conclusions he has drawn from that grim experience. Close observers of Argentine politics agree that anti-Jewish feeling runs deep in Argentine history and culture. But they doubt that the ideology of the junta is profoundly antiSemitic. They also question Timerman's theory that Argentine Jews are involved in a conspiracy of silence about their present peril...