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SUNDAY WAS INDEED a happy Easter for Argentinians, whose president, Raul Alfonsin, convinced rebel army officers to abort a plan to launch an offensive against the nations's still fragile democracy. For four days, the officers had plotted in a military compound outside the capital. Alfonsin proved that even in blood-soaked Latin America, the power of suasion can exceed the power of arms. The peaceful victory offers others in a war-torn world an eloquent lesson...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina--President Raul Alfonsin announced yesterday he had obtained the surrender of dozens of armed rebel soldiers after meeting with their leader at the military base where they had been holed up for three days...
...series of nationwide demonstrations, resulted from a deepening concern among students that the door may be closing on the accessibility of a university degree, the traditional path to a good job and financial security. "People study now who probably would have found work before," says High Schooler Raul Cabezas. "But because there is no work, what else can they do? They might as well study as do nothing...
Lost in this bleak landscape is the vivacious Madame Von Loren. Supported by her hairdresser ex-husband (Raul Julia), she stumbles from one bottle of Stolichnaya to the next, oblivious to the craziness of the world outside her pink walls. Oblivious, that is, until she becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a man she doesn't even remember meeting, let alone killing...
...Britain immediately spurned the cease-fire proposal as an attempt to gain at the bargaining table what could not be won in combat. The response of Argentine President Raul Alfonsin: "We are still seeing the intransigence and the obstinacy of the government of Britain...