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Lanusse immediately declared a state of emergency and imposed martial law on Buenos Aires and Argentina's five most populous provinces. He also insisted that Campora, who had been conferring with Juan Peron in Madrid about the new government that is to take office May 25, return home to deal with "the new crimes." Campora, who hitherto had studiously ignored the military's recommendations and instructions, could not refuse this time. "I shall return on the first plane," he cabled Lanusse...
After the imposition of martial law, Argentina was singularly quiet. All public gatherings were banned, except for sport and theatrical events. Newspapers and magazines were forbidden to report on terrorist activities. Federal and provincial courts were replaced by tough military courts, which were instructed to impose the death penalty on anyone convicted of kidnaping...
Last week, Campora conferred with members of the junta in his Buenos Aires apartment. Lanusse agreed to back down on a demand that Campora categorically censure the guerrillas. Campora, on his part, recognized the junta's right to combat terrorists as it sees fit until his inauguration, when martial law will be replaced by less stringent measures. The President-elect had good reason to compromise. If the terrorism were to continue, the generals would presumably have a strong excuse for trying to postpone, or even prevent, his assumption of power...
...Shortly after Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law last September, American Jesuit Vincent Cullen was clapped into jail. The reason: Cullen was a social action director on the island of Mindanao, where his labors on behalf of minorities and poor farmers in a land dispute provoked the wrath of local officials. Now Cullen has been released, but is under the custody of the Philippines provincial. While Cullen chafes, a fellow Jesuit, Father James Donelan, regularly offers Mass at Marcos' Malacanang Palace, and other Jesuits have given retreats for the President...
...militants did not get far, though, until Marcos made a mistake last September: he included Mindanao in the martial law decree prohibiting the possession of firearms. To the Filipino Moslems, who regard guns as their most prized possessions, it was a direct threat. With a speed and solidarity that took the Philippine authorities by surprise, hundreds of hitherto law-abiding Moslems took to the hills. Since then, the hundreds have grown into thousands. Moslem insurgents are now estimated to number 13,500 in eastern Mindanao and 6,000 in the Sulu islands, chiefly Basilan and Jolo...