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...guerrillas and 124 soldiers and police have died in what the military calls "the dirty war." The government has virtu ally wiped out one major terrorist group, the leftist Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (E.R.P.). The other large guerrilla network is the Montoneros, who are also leftists with Peronist sympathies; most of their top leaders have been killed or captured, but they can still launch spectacular bombings, kidnapings and murders. One Shootout last week took place at Buenos Aires' evening rush hour, near the Supreme Court building. Says one military expert: "The guerrillas are not as strong...
...years of Perón's rule plus another two decades of his baleful influence shattered and paralyzed moderate political forces. Even as Isabelita awaits trial for misuse of public funds, el Lider's cult retains its mystique. "People have no confidence in parties," concedes one anti-Peronist politician. "We are not ready for elections until Peronism is dismantled and forgotten...
...Accustomed to lavish salaries and the best and cheapest food in South America, Argentines are eating less steak and moonlighting to stay solvent. Real wages have plummeted by 50% to 60% in a year. But unemployment in Buenos Aires is only 4% to 5%-testimony to the muscle of Peronist unions, whose members provided el Lider's political infantry...
...bishops and centrist priests have been reluctant to criticize the new military government, which is striving with great difficulty to re-establish public order. Moreover, the church's authority has been weakened by the past involvement of a group of Argentine Third World Movement priests with left-wing Peronist guerrillas...
...Former Senator Hipólito Solari Yrigoyen, known for his firm defense of human rights during the Peronist years, was kidnaped from his home in southern Argentina in mid-August. Although Interior Minister General Albano Harguindeguy personally tried to find him, the search took two weeks. Solari was finally pitched out of the back of a truck, together with another legislator who had been kidnaped at the same time. Both men were immediately rearrested by the army...