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Responsibility for the attack was claimed last week by the People's Revolutionary Army, or E.R.P., a Marxist terrorist group that numbers about 2,000 guerrillas. The attack came on the eve of parliamentary debates on a new penal code that would clamp down on terrorist activities; for example, it would more than double the maximum sentence for extortion (to ten years). The code, which was approved at week's end, is an emotional issue among the already divided supporters of aging President Juan Perón, 78; they are torn between a concern for protecting civil rights...
...attack finally stirred Peron to act against Argentina's increasingly audacious terrorists, who in the past year have been responsible for many of a score of political murders and 200 kidnapings. Donning his general's uniform, a stern-faced el Lider appeared on nationwide television last week, vowing a readiness to take "all pertinent measures" to crush terrorist groups. He warned that "if we don't have the law [to combat terrorists], we'll do it outside the law and we'll do it violently, because you can't oppose violence with anything...
...people-many of them foreign executives-who were kidnaped last year. All gratefully noted that only one foreigner had been killed; the rest were released after ransom had been paid. Now the situation has changed. The dwindling community of foreign businessmen in Argentina is frightened by a change in terrorist tactics that could not only lead to a number of deaths but also further damage Argentina's wobbly economy...
...kidnaping climaxed months of terrorist activity in which the emotions of Argentina's businessmen have been violently whipsawed. On Nov. 22, leftist guerrillas ambushed and brutally shot to death John Swint, the American general manager of a Ford Motor Co. subsidiary. Eight days later, Ford got a call indicating that unless $4,000,000 was paid to the guerrillas, more lives would be "jeopardized." As a result, 22 executives of the company and their families left Argentina immediately. Ford, the country's largest carmaker, seriously considered closing its plants, which employ about 10,000 people...
...E.T.A. was founded in the late 1950s, and until a few years ago its several hundred members did little more than paint slogans on walls. But in the mid-1960s a group of young Basque patriots rejected the moderation of their elders and secretly formed the terrorist "Fifth Wing" of the E.T.A. Consisting of a few dozen men at most, it is a tautly disciplined, highly trained guerrilla band, well supplied with arms either captured from the police or bought in Sweden and Czechoslovakia. Most Basques have scant interest in the E.T.A.'s brand of terrorism. But though unlikely...