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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: ARGENTINA: MENEM ASKED TO EXPLAIN THREATS
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- ** Topic: ARGENTINA: MENEM ASKED TO EXPLAIN H **
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- Subject: ARGENTINA: MENEM ASKED TO EXPLAIN H
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- Title: ARGENTINA: MENEM ASKED TO EXPLAIN HIS ALLEGED ''THREATS''
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- buenos aires, jul 11 (ips) -- an argentinian parliamentarian has
- demanded an investigation into president carlos menem's alleged
- threats against those who organise and participate in street rallies
- to air their grievances.
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- socialist deputy alfredo brazo has asked the country's judiciary
- to verify if menem's words ''constitute an offence or public
- intimidation''.
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- on friday, argentina's daily newspapers quoted menem who warned
- against a repeat of the 'plaza de mayo' incident early this month
- where parents, teachers and students protested against a law
- establishing compensation for former political prisoners of the past
- military dictatorship.
-
- menem had made the statements in a press conference this week in
- argentina's northern city of tucuman, where he presided over the
- country's 176th celebration of independence.
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- in tucuman, menem said protests organised by teachers ''are
- breeding ground for infiltration by subversives'' and called on
- parents to prevent their children from joining such rallies.
-
- he said some participants in the 'plaza de mayor' rally had
- ''contacts'' with fugitive rebel enrique gorriaran, who was
- allegedly responsible for the assassination in paraguay
- of former nicaraguan dictator anastasio somoza.
-
- in an interview with ips, bravo said menem ''had lost the ability
- to think calmly'' about people's protests after he became the object
- of school strikes and massive protest demonstrations in tucuman and
- jujuy province along the argentina-bolivia border.
-
- justice minister leon arsalanian denied knowledge of menem's
- declarations. but his colleague, defence minister erman conzalez,
- confirmed the participation of ''subversives'' in the rallies.
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- to reassure the people, argentina's minister of the interior jose
- luis manzano said the president's statements contained no threats
- and were made simply to ''call the people's attention''.
-
- he said the government ''would guarantee for all kinds of
- peaceful rallies the way it did during recent protest marches by
- teachers and metallurgists''. (end/ips/trd/ff/sfi/cir/92)
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