Word: menem
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...quest to give Argentina a greater international profile, President Carlos Menem may be sailing into troubled waters. Last week two missile- bearing Argentine frigates departed to join the forces in the Persian Gulf. Menem, who is of Syrian descent, dispatched the vessels even though the help was not requested. "Argentina, long considered not serious or reliable, will slowly change its image," he declared. A poll indicates that 70% of his fellow citizens oppose the move, which ironically places Argentina in alliance with Britain, its enemy in the 1982 Falklands...
These are not the best of times for Argentina's President Carlos Menem. When his wife Zulema barricaded herself and their two children within the presidential residence, he prudently left the country for a European sojourn, though not before signing a decree giving himself sole authority over who is allowed inside. When he returned home, he ousted Zulema, who then made a melodramatic scene in front of TV cameras. But these troubles pale before a new problem confronting Menem. Legions of superstitious Argentines have become convinced he is cursed with a hex. The alleged evidence: several of his Cabinet ministers...
...WERE SAYING? Argentina's President, Carlos Saul Menem, has never shown a sustained attention span for details. So a top aide was surprised during a recent private meeting to find the President nodding vigorously and taking copious notes. When Menem was called from the room, the aide could not resist peeking at what the President had written. What he found was Menem's ideal lineup for a local soccer team...
During the crisis, Menem remained virtually out of sight. The key question is whether he will stick to this latest plan, since he has failed to honor many other austerity pledges. He had promised to rid the swollen Argentine government of scores of money-losing businesses and to make the country's bloated public sector more efficient, presumably by trimming its size through layoffs or attrition. But Menem, a Peronist whose political base is Argentina's powerful labor movement, has not had the stomach to set the stage for a confrontation with the country's blue-collar workers by carrying...
...Argentina inevitably brings worries that the military, which ran the country with brutal inefficiency from 1976 to 1983, might hanker for another turn at power. Those fears were heightened last week when the army chief, General Isidro Caceres, warned that "the army is worried about the economic situation." For Menem, the best way to keep the soldiers at bay and serve out his full six-year term would be to set a course for economic stability and then hold firm to it. In Argentina that is no easy task...