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...results are evident. At Argentina's La Plata State University, only 20% of the students who enter survive to pick up their diplomas. At Catholic U. in nearby Buenos Aires, 85% finish...
...headlines indicate. In uneasy Argentina. the cost of living is up 58% this year, the peso down 60%. But it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and in Buenos Aires the days are blazing and the nights sticky. The place to get away to is Mar del Plata, Argentina's favorite Atlantic resort, 250 miles south, and last week the annual migration was in full swing...
They once were not welcome at Mar del Plata. In 1886, when the seashore city was first linked to Buenos Aires by rail, Argentina's cattle barons took a liking to the foaming, cool surf, and invited their rich friends to build summer homes...
...been a land living under military rule, preserving only the flimsiest façade of democracy. Arturo Frondizi, the deposed constitutional President who gave Peron's still-faithful descamisados (shirtless ones) a place on the ballot, still waits on his prison island in the Rio de la Plata. In the Buenos Aires Presidential Palace sits a puppet President, José Maria Guido, a minor politician who must wait, too-wait for the military men, who fear Peron, to decide what to do. Last week the generals made up their minds, and the result was a further flight of democracy...
...while, public outrage mounts. In the north coast town of Puerto Plata last week, news spread that two former Trujillo secret police agents were about to flee to Haiti aboard a Dominican freighter. Before long an angry crowd had gathered at the dock, hurling stones at the ship, screaming for the pair to be handed over. An army unit arrived, took the men from the ship to the local garrison. The mob followed, still protesting, and the soldiers reacted in familiar Dominican fashion-a burst of machine-gun fire killed one man and wounded three. Next day, in the city...