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...keep clocks in synch the National Institute of Standards and Technology will add an extra, or leap, second on June 30. Atomic clocks use a length of a second that doesn't represent the long-term slowing trend, so they're a teeny-weeny bit fast. Says NIST spokesman Collier Smith: "We stop the hands of the clock long enough for the world to catch...
...support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." The U.S. set about, through a combination of diplomacy, economic assistance and military alliances, to create an international environment that would "contain" the Soviet empire within its own boundaries, forcing the Marxist-Leninist-Stali nist system to stew in its own poisonous juices. The author of that strategy, George Kennan, believed Soviet Communism "bears within it the seeds of its own decay." Containment, he wrote in 1947, could eventually lead to "the gradual mellowing of Soviet power." But until then, he stressed, "there...
...visit came at the invitation of President Raúl Alfonsín, who has been cultivating Isabel in an effort to improve his standing with the Perónist party. Alfonsín's Radical Civic Union Party scored a stunning upset victory over the Perónists in elections last October, marking the party's first defeat in a national election since the rise of Juan Perón in 1946. By forging a coalition among Radicals, conservatives and blue-collar workers, Alfonsín captured 52% of the vote, and his party gained control...
...years have taken none of the sass out of the indefatigable Isabel, who once earned a living as a cabaret dancer. Sporting a shiny brown leather coat, with a swatch of honey-blond hair falling over her right eye, she strode up to a group of Perónist party leaders, wagged an admonishing finger at them and declared, "Whoever misbehaves will get a spanking." Later, she continued jousting coquettishly with members of the Perónist National Council who had gathered in her hotel suite. "I'm not going to kiss the men," she giggled. "Beards make...
...that Timerman was among the majority of citizens who welcomed that military coup in 1976. In the years before and after the 1973 return to power of former Dictator Perón, Argentina suffered the worst bout of terrorism on the continent. Thousands of left-wing Perónist disciples, known as Montoneros, allied with Trotskyite guerrillas to terrorize and murder at will. Among their victims: onetime Argentine President Pedro Aramburu, General Juan Carlos Sánchez, commander of the Argentine army Second Corps, and John Patrick Egan, a U.S. government representative. Some 700 people were killed by guerrillas, most...