Word: tucuman
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...subjects consisted of university students from Tucuman, Argentina, who were assigned to be employers or workers, according to the study. The attractiveness of each participant was ranked on an ascending scale of one to five by local high school students...
...resignation of Army Chief of Staff General Hector Rios Erenu, 56, who supported the trials. Alfonsin replaced Rios Erenu last week with former Inspector General Jose Segundo Dante Caridi, 56. The appointment, however, promptly led to renewed unrest at infantry garrisons in the northern provinces of Salta and Tucuman, where troops backed Training Institute Director General Augusto Vidal for the top military post. Said one insider: "The President was not about to show that the rebels could put up a nominee." Still, Caridi's appointment was part of a high-command housecleaning. General Fausto Gonzalez, who was said...
...Marxist left renewed prestige and influence for the first time in 30 years. A number of industrialists had been kidnapped and ransomed for salary raises and other benefits for the workers. Since July 1974, the ERP had maintained a very active rural guerrilla front in the northwestern province of Tucuman, and with their influence on peasants and workers had caused the armed forces increasing anxiety...
...hard-fought military engagement that cost at least 115 lives-85 guerrillas, seven government troops, three policemen and 20 civilians. The attack was apparently a joint operation of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), a left-wing guerrilla group that has been fighting government troops for years in Tucuman province, and the Montone-ros, the terrorist arm of left-wing Peronists, who specialize in urban assassinations and high-ransom kidnapings. According to the army, 150 guerrillas-many of them boys and girls in their late teens-attacked the arsenal as most of its 40 troops were sitting down...
...cheek. He told me it happened while he was cleaning his gun, but I don't believe it.* He has put on lots of weight lately, but this is the result of the medicine he's taking." Then Mother Guevara set off on the road again; at Tucuman in the Argentine provinces, her presence started a most rewarding brawl. Now she is back in Brazil, where she can count on more rallies, more riots...