[SANITIZED]WEEKLY SUMMARY APRIL 16, 1976 - 1976/04/16

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02987071
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 21
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: April 16, 1976

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April 16, 1976
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Comments and queries on the contents of this
publication are welcome. They may be
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Summary,
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ARGENTINA 5 -; 7
Mounting political violence has emerg-
ed as a major headache for President
Videla's government.
Dozens of people have died in clashes
between forces of the left and the right
since the military take-over on March 24.
Urban guerrillas are attacking police and
security officials, while rightists are begin-
ning a campaign of reprisals that so far
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has taken over 20 lives.
On April 13 and 14, terrorists set off a
number of powerful bombs near the
headquarters of the First Army Corps in
Buenos Aires, killed one Argentine ex-
ecutive of a US-based firm, and fired on
the home of another, killing his two
security guards. In dealing with the
renewed violence, the junta must walk a
fine line between seeking to carry out
Videla's pledge to keep the anti-terrorist
effort within legal bounds and doing what
is necessary to suppress the violence.
The activities of the right-wing vigilante
groups are particularly troublesome for
the junta. It was widely believed that such
actions were condoned, or perhaps even
inspired, by the Peron administration.
There is in fact no indication that the new
government condones the killings of lef-
tists by off-duty police and security of-
ficials.
Even so, the exploits of vigilante groups
could quickly dissipate the relative good
will the public has shown the military
government. The junta needs all the sup-
port it can muster at home and abroad to
proceed successfully in critical areas like
the economy.
Military advocates of harsh repression
view the continuation of left-wing violence
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as an argument in favor of the tough
measures they have proposed all along.
The left hopes to provoke precisely such
repression, in the belief that the eventual
result would be popular repudiation of the
military government.
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