Word: leopoldo
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...negotiations brought substantial reductions in tariffs, but GATT members thought it was time for another round. Reason: too many countries have circumvented the group's rules by raising a thicket of nontariff barriers, including import quotas, product standards and other obstacles to free trade. Said Leopoldo Tettamanti, the Argentine delegate to GATT: "We are in a mess...
...Falklands War came back to haunt both sides in the conflict last week. In Buenos Aires three former junta members were convicted of bungling the ten-week conflict that ended in humiliating defeat for Argentina. Former President Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 59, who launched the war, was sentenced by the country's highest military court to twelve years in prison. The navy and air force chiefs at the time received 14- and eight-year sentences...
...stripped of their military rank and sentenced to life imprisonment. Three co-defendants, including Roberto Viola, 61, who succeeded Videla as President, were found guilty of lesser charges, deprived of military rank and given sentences ranging from 4 1/2 to 17 years. The remaining four officers--among them General Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 59, who as President from 1981 to 1982 initiated the ill-fated war with Britain over the Falkland Islands--were acquitted...
Nearly 500 spectators crowded into the courtroom for this first appearance of the once powerful junta members, among them Jorge Videla and Leopoldo Galtieri, who ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1982. The nine generals contend that whatever abuses occurred during their time in office were the result of their antiterrorist campaign to save the country from a leftist takeover. Said Prosecutor Julio Strassera: "Accompanying me in this demand for justice are more than 9,000 desaparecidos (those who disappeared) who have left their silent but no less eloquent damning testimony." A verdict is expected by the end of the year...
...urged President Reagan to phone General Leopoldo Galtieri, head of the ruling military junta in Buenos Aires, and issue a strong personal warning. Galtieri's aide stated that his chief was "unavailable" to speak to the President of the U.S. After a two-hour delay, however, Galtieri consented to come on the line. "I must have your assurance that there will be no landing tomorrow," Reagan said during a conversation that lasted for no less than 50 minutes. Galtieri responded with a portentous silence. At that very moment, the invasion was being launched...