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...President Raul Alfonsin rushed to the Campo de Mayo army garrison near Buenos Aires and talked the mutineers into surrendering. Faced last week with another rebellion of disgruntled soldiers in the northeastern city of Monte Caseros, Alfonsin chose not to waste any more words. Instead he sent 2,000 loyalist troops to crush the rebels at a local army base, ending a three-day uprising that had spread to several other units...
That assessment is by no means shared by everyone in the President's own party. Among the six Republican candidates to succeed Reagan, only Vice President George Bush, ever the true-blue loyalist, has given the INF deal unqualified support. In the Senate, which must approve the agreement by a two- thirds vote if it is to take effect, a hard core of perhaps a dozen conservative Republicans is mobilizing to block ratification, and many more are dubious. One tactic they are likely to follow is proposing amendments, such as one making ratification contingent on proof that the Soviets...
...President's strong words did not dispel a certain nervousness among the officials and diplomats who came to hear her. Many were momentarily startled when an army artillery squad fired the ceremonial 21-gun salute. They had reason to wince. The uprising had been bloody: 22 civilians, twelve loyalist soldiers and 19 rebels dead, with more than 300 injured, including Aquino's only son Benigno ("Noynoy"), 27. Perhaps more distressing, the coup attempt has exposed a deep vein of military dissatisfaction with the Aquino government, which has been bedeviled by a growing list of economic, administrative and, some allege, moral...
Shortly after Honasan's flight, some 350 of his followers surrendered to government troops. That night Ramos said that five rebels had been killed and two wounded at Camp Aguinaldo, while the loyalist side had lost four, with 24 wounded. He also said that "mopping-up operations" were under way and called on Honasan to surrender...
...1780s, the man he asked to go with him was West. The artist was painting the King's portrait at the moment a messenger arrived with the news of the Declaration of Independence. The unfolding of the Revolution caused him endless social difficulty, because the English and the American loyalist exiles in London suspected him of siding with the rebels. But still West's career was full of lessons for Americans artists coming up behind him: his desire for education, his often rather raw quoting of poses from classical statuary, his impulse toward deeper historical and allegorical meaning, took...