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...final analysts, one cannot but recommend Mr. Keating and his likes to take a course in human relations because this community is not willing to put up with the despicable abuse of other human beings. Rafael Antonio Ruiz...
...week began, the players in the debt poker game came together, appropriately enough, at the Hotel Casino San Rafael, the site of a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank in the seaside resort of Punta del Este, Uruguay. Grinspun headed the Argentine delegation, while William Rhodes, representing Citicorp, led an eleven-member team of bankers. One banker joked that Punta del Este would witness its most explosive confrontation since three British cruisers challenged the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee off the shores of the resort in December...
Under a blazing summer sun, the gravediggers thrust their shovels into the hard earth of the cemetery in Rafael Calzada, a village 19 miles south of Buenos Aires. A federal judge watched impassively and policemen stood at a respectful distance as the workers unearthed the remains of 15 bodies and carefully placed them in brown plastic bags. The hands of all but one of the corpses had been cut off, apparently to thwart later identification...
...President Raúl Alfonsín's first acts after his Dec. 10 inauguration was to decree that nine military junta members, including former Presidents Jorge Rafael Videla, Roberto Viola and Leopoldo Galtieri, be brought before the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Argentina's highest military court. In court-martial proceedings that began last week, they were accused of mass murder and torture of civilians. Alfonsin also signed a bill repealing an amnesty law proclaimed by the outgoing military government that would have absolved the armed forces of responsibility for the atrocities of the "dirty...
Economics loomed large in Lusinchi's campaign and in that of his Social Christian opponent, Rafael Caldera, 67, who served as President from...