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Ronald Reagan allowed himself a few minutes of gaiety, rather soberly marking his North Carolina victory with orange sherbet and chocolate ice cream aboard his Boeing 727. Then he canceled nearly all of his scheduled campaign appearances and withdrew to his Pacific Palisades home overlooking Los Angeles to prepare for...
A blare of trumpets cut off the soft music of an early-morning radio program, then a stern voice declared: "The country is under the operational control of the Junta of the Commanding Generals of the Armed Forces." With that, Argentines last week heard the news that most of them...
But there was no significant resistance, and the generals did not even bother to order a curfew. The coup was no great surprise, after all. Argentines had been speculating for months about when-not if-the soldiers would take power. Conditions were deteriorating so rapidly that only the military could...
Isabel's successors surely recognize that if they are to check inflation, get the farms and factories humming again and increase foreign earnings, the painful sacrifice of economic austerity will be required from nearly all Argentines. Not only will this strain the military's popularity, but it might...
(11 of 11) restore a sense of transgression, to sharpen guilt. Taboos hold out the promise of resonance and tension, of eroticism itself."