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...unsure that "there was no evidence of disappearance in 1982," as the report states Ricardo Rene Haidar, a guerrilla leader of the Montenegro revolutionary opposition, was abducted in Buenos Aires last December. He has not been accounted for, and La Prensa--the largest newspaper in Argentina--has reported that he has been executed by security forces...
...cause of the imbroglio was an example of just what Fiallos had been worrying about. In late November the Harvard-educated lawyer gave an unusually outspoken interview to Managua's independent daily La Prensa, in which he urged the Sandinistas to make a "dramatic change" in their policies if they want to maintain international credibility. But the government promptly banned newspaper publication of the interview, scheduled to appear Dec. 10. As Fiallos told TIME Correspondent Ross H. Munro last week, "During my frequent visits to Nicaragua, I saw the deteriorating situation in our country and transmitted my worries...
Still, the Thatcher government's problems paled in comparison with those facing Argentina. In an editorial, the independent Buenos Aires daily La Prensa published what it described as a blueprint for recovery. "We must accept the lessons of experience and rid ourselves of this crisis," the paper said. "A regime must be created by which governments can act without having to obtain approval of military organizations." Argentina last week seemed a long way from accepting that courageous advice...
...carries no ecumenical agenda whatsoever; the population is 92% Catholic, compared with Britain's 13%. But while the basic purpose is pastoral, even more than in Britain the political landscape is dotted with opportunities for trouble. "The Pope's visit could weigh heavily in peace negotiations," La Prensa, the leading daily in Buenos Aires, warned last week. Though John Paul carried no blueprint-only a desire for the two sides to stop shooting and start talking-he could confront a nation in a foul mood, reeling from a bloody and climactic Falklands defeat at the hands of Britain...
...plans," Alfonso Robelo Callejas, a leading moderate, declared: "The state of emergency is a very logical reaction. The Americans provided a lot of the elements." Others feared that the Sandinistas were exploiting the situation to edge toward greater control. Jaime Chamorro Cardenal, acting editor of the opposition daily La Prensa, called the emergency decree "one more step in the radicalization of the regime...