Word: menem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following the lead of provincial leaders, also ordered the creation of hundreds of soup kitchens and the free distribution of food. Some measure of order was restored after four days, but many citizens were calling for Alfonsin, whose Radical Civic Union party was convincingly defeated by Peronist Carlos Saul Menem in May 14 elections, to step down before his term ends on Dec. 10. When the two men met last week, however, they apparently agreed that an early transition would suit neither one. Alfonsin wants a normal, democratic transfer of power -- Argentina's first since 1928 -- while Menem...