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Griffin Daily News Monday, April 12,1976
Argentina army
has cleanup job
By NEA/london Economist Service
BUENOS AIRES — (LENS)
— When an army gives as
much forewarning that it is
about to take the country over
as Argentina's did. it ought to
know what it is going to do
with its new power Argen
tina's army has given itself
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the job of cleaning up the
civilians' mess often enough
before, and usually the
soldiers have left a largte red
stain on the carpet. This time
the army's intervention
should, and could, be like a
surgeon's scalpel: short,
sharp and clean.
Gen Jorge Videla, the coun
try's new president, has in
herited a political and
economic wasteland. More
than 2.000 people have been
killed by political terrorists of
left or right since Isabella
Peron succeeded her dead
husband in July. 1974 Infla
tion is currently the world's
highest, at a rate variously es
timated between 400 per cent
and 1,000 per cent. The coun
try has run up a total foreign
debt of $lO billion. And the ex
president herself was under
suspicion oftcorruption. It will
not be easy for General Videla
to deal with a disaster on this
scale, but he has two advan
tages that Mrs. Peron did not
have. The armed forces are on
his side; and he is not
beholden to the Peronist trade
unions, whose runaway wage
increases have pushed infla
tion to its present height
Modern Argentina has been
trapped between the Scylla of
Peronism and the Charybdis
of the army, never able to es
cape from the one without dis
appearing straight into the
maw of the other. After Juan
Peron had been exiled by the
army in 1955, he nevertheless
retained his power base in the
unions, which took advantage
of Argentina's occasional
returns to democracy to gob
ble up the country’s economic
prosperity. So the army would
step injigain (there were six
military coups between 1955
and 1973), and usually
overstay its welcome; when
unpopularity drove the
soldiers from office, power
reverted to an electorate and
union movement thirsting
once again for Peronism. The
army tried banning Peronism
during the periods of civilian
rule, but to no avail.
Successive civilian presidents
had to bargain with Argen
tina's most famous exile in
order to get elected
But General Videla has a
better chance than most of his
predecessors to break free.
Juan Peron is dead, and the
military junta will no longer
have to contend with the king
across the water. General
Videla can reasonably hope
that Peronism will go to
pieces without its founder,
and do so quicker than
Gaullism is in France. Indeed,
General Videla restrained his
more impatient subordinates
from mounting a coup earlier
precisely in order to give time
for the process of Peronist
disintegration to set in. The
power of the unions will re
main, of course, to bedevil
future civilian governments.
But an elected non-Peronist
president should be able, with
the backing of the army, to
keep (he unions in hand
The army's seizure of power
took place before Argentines
had a chance to replace Mrs.
Peron democratically, in the
election due later this year
But if he had not acted now
General Videla would
probably have been replaced
by a tougher soldier. As it is,
he has got off to a less
repressive start than most
Latin American military
rulers.
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the property of the buyer for 24 hours. (UPI)
Georgians die
in plane crash
Raided
JAMESTOWN, Tenn. (UPI)
— Six persons were killed
Sunday when a light single
engine plane enroute from
Newcastle, Ind., to Polk County,
Ga., crashed in a wooded area
of Fetress County.
Sheriff Buster Stockton said it
appeared the pilot of the Cessna
210 lost his sense of direction in
rainy, overcast skies and
piloted the plane straight into
the ground about six miles from
Jamestown.
Killed were the pilot Richard
Pierce, 34; his wife, Joan, 28;
their sons, Tony, 12, and Corey,
6, all of Roclonart, Ga. Also
killed were Mrs. W.G. Nesbitt,
34, and her daughter, Robin,
about 14, both of Rome, Ga.
Stockton said witness working
on a farm near the crash site
saw the plane come out of the
clouds and begin to disintegrate
before it hit the ground. It did
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Angola’s battles
turning political
By NEA/London Economist News Service
LUANDA - (LENS) - The
new government in Angola is
already coming under
criticism at home. And to add
to its discomfiture its capital,
Luanda, is being swept by a
wave of banditry.
The mouthpiece of the
government's critics is an un
derground tabloid calling
itself Newspaper of the
Worker It accuses the
Popular Movement govern
ment of selling out both to the
Russians (because it accepted
Soviet military aid) and to the
Americans (because it has
asked Gulf Oil Corp to
resume oil production in
Cabinda). The paper also
attacks the Cubans in Angola
as "the new colonizers".
The critics say that China
should be the model for
Angola. They have a fine line
in egalitarian rhetoric: "Why
do the people have to queue
for bread while those in the
government palace eat
caviar?" Whether there is any
connection is not clear, but
there has been an outbreak of
sporadic shooting at night;
cars are being stopped and
their occupants robbed,
sometimes at pinpoint, by
men in uniform
Some of the Popular
Movement's leaders claim
that the dissidents are sup
ported by the CIA But other
people suspect that the at
tackers have got the backing
of a sfflinter group of the
Popular Movement. This
group. Active Revolt, first op
posed Agostimo Neto's
leadership in 1974, and has not
co-operated with the Popular
Movement since it became
the government. It has a
strong following in the universi
ty and among those who are
loosely known- as the
movement’s intellectuals.
The real activists of the
anti-Popular Movement cam
paign are thought to be young
Angolans and Portuguese un
der the influence of two far
left Portuguese parties, the
Portuguese D»moratic Union
and the Revolutionary Move
ment of the Portuguese
Proletariat The links with the
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latter appear to worry the
Popular Movement more,
because it is a Maoist
organization and there are
some Maoists in the Popular
Movement. President Nqto
says: "Consciously or not,
there are agents of im
perialism even within our
movement They praise a
socialist country which never
helped us during the . war.
They praise China . . Those
who persist are traitors.'
Peppard
backing
Carter
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.
(UPI) — Actor George Pep
pard, one of 168 persons
attending a Democratic Party
grass-roots caucus for Jimmy
Carter Sunday, was among 10
persons recommended as a
Carter delegate to the national
convention.
Peppard, who said he had
never been politically active
before, pledged he would help
raise money for Carter’s
presidential campaign.
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