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...consider this scene at the start of the 1949 La Mujer que yo perdí (The Woman I Lost). A pretty young woman (Silvia Pinal, Buñuel's Viridiana), on an evening's stroll with her mother, is accosted by a young man she has rebuffed before. As he persists in his advances, her fiance (Infante) comes by and insists the man apologize. The man, identifying himself as the son of the attorney general, draws a gun. Infante knocks him down, the man's head hits the curb and blood gushes out. A newspaper headline screams: "Pedro Monta...
Coming only weeks after President Reynaldo Bignone promised to hold general elections next October, the strike threw the beleaguered country into an economic stall it could ill afford. Seven years after the military overthrew the regime of Isabel Martinez de Perdón, the call for elections to form a civilian government was effectively an admission that the generals have failed to bring order to the nation's chaotic political life. Their repressive rule has left Argentina with economic disaster, international notoriety for the scale of its human rights violations and national disgrace in the aftermath of last year...
...author turned out to be Hector Villalón, 50, a shadowy Argentinian who was a confidant of Eva Perón in her heyday in the 1950s. After Dictator Juan Perón was toppled in 1955, Villalón remained a trusted adviser on foreign affairs during Perdón's exile in Spain. During the past few years, Villalón has operated out of Paris, where he deals in oil and commodities. One of his associates is Christian Bourguet, a leftist lawyer who in the 1970s became a close friend of Foreign Minister Ghotbzadeh, then...
...army commander, Lieut. General Leandro Anaya, promised to wage battle with the terrorists "until we have achieved the total extermination of the enemies of the fatherland." While threatening to wipe out the guerrillas, Anaya was careful to stress that the army will do so in support of President Isabel Perdón's constitutional government and not by overthrowing...
...Capus started his literary career as a novelist, and published many little works full of irony, such as "Qui Perd Gagne," "Faux Depart," and "Annees d'Aventure." His "Brignol et sa Fille," a study of the French business man, has been acted on the vaudeville stage. "La Bouse et La Vie," which is now having a great success at the "Gymnase," is a clever satire on the new and luxurious French prisons...
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