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Faced with overwhelming support for Alfonsin and his government, the mutineers surrendered and Barreiro fled. The aborted mutiny was a triumph for Alfonsin, who showed that he was firmly in charge. Says Author Jacobo Timerman, who was tortured during the military rule: "If the crisis was a ten, Alfonsin, being the shrewd politician he is, made it into a thousand. It was the first time in 60 years that there was a political and civilian answer to a military provocation...
...effort to lay the "dirty war" to rest, Argentina's Congress set last February as the deadline for civilians to lodge new complaints. Army Chief of Staff General Hector Rios Erenu reportedly promised army leaders that at most 100 more officers would face charges. Says Timerman: "The problem was that in all there were about 400. The officers had nothing specifically against Alfonsin, but they felt that Rios Erenu had gone against his word." The rebels' demands last week included Rios Erenu's resignation...
DIED. JACOBO TIMERMAN, 76, voluble Argentine journalist and activist imprisoned and tortured by military forces after the 1976 overthrow of President Isabel Peron; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires. Timerman's 1981 best seller, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, sparked international outrage over human-rights abuses...
Like most people, Jacobo Timerman did not travel light when he went to Cuba. Before his arrival for a four-week stay in 1987, the Argentine journalist had already asserted his support, as a Latin American socialist, for Cuba's right to sovereignty, while also declaring his hatred, as a former political prisoner of the Argentine military, of totalitarianism in all its forms. Opposing predispositions would cancel each other out, leaving him in a state of perfect neutrality...
Occasionally, when its author forgets himself and goes out onto the streets, his brief book catches something of the high-spirited dilapidation of the place. Chatting with hitchhikers, inspecting the nervous squalor of a love hotel, suggesting, intriguingly, that the revolution has led to "the perversion of family ethics," Timerman brings us fresh news of the island. As in his celebrated testament, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, his argument is strongest when it sticks to narrative. But after a few tantalizing glimpses, he is back in his room, reading the island through government documents. The result...