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- <text id=91TT0050>
- <title>
- Jan. 14, 1991: World Notes:Argentina
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Jan. 14, 1991 Breast Cancer
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 32
- World Notes
- ARGENTINA
- No Peace in The Dirty War
- </hdr><body>
- <p> President Carlos Saul Menem wanted to "close a black
- chapter" in Argentina's history. But his decision last week to
- pardon ex-President Jorge Videla and half a dozen other leaders
- who had been jailed in 1986 for their role in Argentina's
- "dirty war" in the late 1970s only rekindled popular outrage.
- Nearly 50,000 citizens took to the streets of Buenos Aires to
- protest, and Bishop Jorge Novak called the measure a
- "humiliating defeat for the democratic system."
- </p>
- <p> Menem intended the pardons to cool the simmering resentment
- within the armed forces that has led to four military uprisings
- since democracy was restored in 1983. The demonstrations
- signaled, however, that Argentine civilians are far from ready
- to forgive the military for having killed 9,000 of their
- countrymen and tortured thousands more in a campaign against
- leftists. But Videla remained unrepentant, calling for the
- "full vindication" of the army.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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