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1,000 | <s>[INST] accountid=28034 Abstract: Antonio Domingo Bussi, one of Argentina's most popular politicians, was elected governor [/INST] of Tucuman province five months ago by a big margin, which is horrifying some people who remember Bussi's prior stint as governor, 20 years ago. </s> |
1,001 | <s>[INST] Back then, he was an army general appointed to the [/INST] post by a military junta, and oversaw an infamous campaign of terror against a band of left-wing guerrillas. </s> |
1,002 | <s>[INST] Full text: AuthorAffiliation Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal Former subordinates [/INST] have testified before a national human-rights commission that the general sometimes stopped by a prison camp and shot prisoners in the head. </s> |
1,003 | <s>[INST] His security apparatus employed "all the elements of Nazi Germany," concluded [/INST] a report issued by the commission, which was formed by the democratic government that replaced the junta in 1983. </s> |
1,004 | <s>[INST] An investigation by the Tucuman legislature found that [/INST] Mr. Bussi ordered the detention of at least 387 people, all of whom remain missing. </s> |
1,005 | <s>[INST] The regime's victims included most local leaders of Argentina's two main [/INST] political parties, several judges and union bosses and the head of the Tucuman chamber of commerce, according to the legislature's report. </s> |
1,006 | <s>[INST] '" says Roberto Palina, secretary-general of the [/INST] local sugar-workers union, whose predecessor was murdered during Mr. Bussi's earlier term. </s> |
1,007 | <s>[INST] Mr. Bussi points out that he [/INST] has never been put on trial or convicted of any crime. </s> |
1,008 | <s>[INST] Human-rights lawyers say that is largely because his actions were covered [/INST] by a 1987 law absolving most military personnel of their alleged crimes on the ground that they were only following orders. </s> |
1,009 | <s>[INST] But Mr. Bussi doesn't [/INST] deny that casualties occurred on his watch. </s> |
1,010 | <s>[INST] Indeed, he proudly recalls the [/INST] time as a "great crusade" against communism. </s> |
1,011 | <s>[INST] "I fought a war here, and 20 years later I [/INST] was taken back by the same people with an overwhelming majority in an election," Mr. Bussi says. </s> |
1,012 | <s>[INST] Besides, electing nicer guys doesn't [/INST] seem to have done Tucuman voters much good. </s> |
1,013 | <s>[INST] During the past decade, a string of governors from [/INST] the ruling Peronist Party created a bloated state bureaucracy and stole money from its financial institutions. </s> |
1,014 | <s>[INST] The most recent governor, Ramon "Palito" Ortega, a pop singer [/INST] with an Elvis-like bouffant, spent more time positioning himself for his current presidential bid than managing local affairs. </s> |
1,015 | <s>[INST] The government is broke and goes [/INST] deeper into the red by $12 million every month. </s> |
1,016 | <s>[INST] Of the 16 sugar mills that [/INST] form the backbone of the regional economy, only three are solvent. </s> |
1,017 | <s>[INST] "The people voted for Bussi to punish politicians who took better care of themselves than [/INST] the people they served," says Gumersindo Parajon, a former legislator whose political mentor was arrested, tortured and then pitched out of a helicopter when Mr. Bussi was military governor. </s> |
1,018 | <s>[INST] "That's the only way to explain [/INST] how a man who killed popular leaders could be elected". </s> |
1,019 | <s>[INST] Adds Eugenio Alvarez, a laid-off refinery engineer [/INST] who now administers foreclosed properties: "We've become accustomed to things being hopeless". </s> |
1,020 | <s>[INST] Mr. Bussi, smoking a cigar under a huge [/INST] portrait of Latin American liberator Jose de San Martin, vows to change all that. </s> |
1,021 | <s>[INST] "Under my leadership, you will see a province that is secure, [/INST] orderly and productive, where men and women are dignified by their own work and not by government handouts," he says. </s> |
1,022 | <s>[INST] Though some economists dismiss Mr. Bussi's [/INST] policies as unsophisticated, he certainly gets high marks for vigor. </s> |
1,023 | <s>[INST] To combat unemployment, he borrowed a transport aircraft [/INST] from the Air Force and flew workers to apple and pear harvests in other provinces. </s> |
1,024 | <s>[INST] He has made early morning forays to [/INST] state-run hospitals to make sure people on the payroll were actually present. </s> |
1,025 | <s>[INST] He ordered government workers to [/INST] take a 12% to 15% "voluntary" pay cut. </s> |
1,026 | <s>[INST] He even put a stop [/INST] to free coffee and croissants at the statehouse. </s> |
1,027 | <s>[INST] He also has tried to [/INST] resurrect the military ethic of his earlier term. </s> |
1,028 | <s>[INST] Every Wednesday at 8 a.m. sharp, he assembles his entire [/INST] cabinet in Tucuman's central plaza to salute the flag and sing along as a brass band plays patriotic marches. </s> |
1,029 | <s>[INST] He tore down a monument with an [/INST] eternal flame dedicated to "life and peace," saying he thought it was ugly. </s> |
1,030 | <s>[INST] He recently made the front pages of national [/INST] newspapers after his press office disseminated a photo of him with a . </s> |
1,031 | <s>[INST] 357 Magnum revolver on his [/INST] desk during a meeting with a local mayor. </s> |
1,032 | <s>[INST] "Bussi still thinks and acts like [/INST] a military man," says Mr. Palina, the union chief. </s> |
1,033 | <s>[INST] But that may be one of [/INST] the main reasons the people of Tucuman elected him. </s> |
1,034 | <s>[INST] As notorious as Mr. Bussi's earlier term was, it [/INST] gave him a rock-solid reputation for law and order -- something Argentine voters now seem to crave. </s> |
1,035 | <s>[INST] Indeed, many people here who weren't directly [/INST] touched by the violence of the 1970s remember Mr. Bussi's tenure fondly. </s> |
1,036 | <s>[INST] Known for working 19-hour days, [/INST] he was slavishly attentive to public works. </s> |
1,037 | <s>[INST] He sometimes personally inspected the [/INST] streets to make sure they were well swept. </s> |
1,038 | <s>[INST] Sugar prices, which were then supported [/INST] by the government, were more than three times their current levels. </s> |
1,039 | <s>[INST] The junta also lavished money on the [/INST] province, hoping to keep its citizens from sympathizing with the guerrillas. </s> |
1,040 | <s>[INST] Mr. Bussi used the cash [/INST] to build roads, irrigation canals, hospitals and schools. </s> |
1,041 | <s>[INST] "The last time I was [/INST] governor, there were high levels of employment and productivity. </s> |
1,042 | <s>[INST] There were unprecedented public works and a high level of [/INST] security," says Mr. Bussi, who received some of his training from the U.S. Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. </s> |
1,043 | <s>[INST] Says Alcides Guillermo Lanconi, a recently elected mayor from Mr. Bussi's [/INST] tiny Fuerza Republicana party: "The people voted for us because it was the only hope for serious government in this province". </s> |
1,044 | <s>[INST] In Mr. Bussi's previous term, 16-year-old Alfredo Forti was [/INST] arrested along with his four brothers and sisters and his mother, who was suspected of subversion. </s> |
1,045 | <s>[INST] He and his siblings were released [/INST] within a week; they never saw their mother again. </s> |
1,046 | <s>[INST] Mr. Forti, who now lives in Washington, D.C., confronted Mr. [/INST] Bussi about his mother's fate in 1994 when the two ended up by chance on the same airplane flight. </s> |
1,047 | <s>[INST] "Publicly, it would be just the [/INST] sort of thing he'd take credit for," Mr. Forti says. </s> |
1,048 | <s>[INST] "But when it came down to the [/INST] two for us, he didn't have the stomach to take responsibility for it. </s> |
1,049 | <s>[INST] SAN MIGUEL DE TUCUMAN, Argentina -- Antonio Domingo [/INST] Bussi, a grandfatherly 70-year-old, is one of Argentina's most popular politicians these days. </s> |
1,050 | <s>[INST] Voters in Tucuman province elected [/INST] him governor five months ago by a big margin. </s> |
1,051 | <s>[INST] When he attends Mass, men, [/INST] women and children press to be near him. </s> |
1,052 | <s>[INST] All of which is horrifying to some [/INST] people who remember Mr. Bussi's prior stint as governor, 20 years ago. </s> |
1,053 | <s>[INST] Back then, as an army general appointed to the post [/INST] by a military junta, Mr. Bussi oversaw an infamous campaign of terror against a band of left-wing guerrillas. </s> |
1,054 | <s>[INST] ___ Document 333 of 500 Treasury bond prices drop as economic data, new issues [/INST] with higher yields exert pressure Author: Vogelstein, Fred; Creswell, Julie Publication info: Wall Street Journal , Eastern edition [New York, N.Y] 16 Feb 1996: C19. </s> |
1,055 | <s>[INST] accountid=28034 Abstract: Treasury bond prices fell on Feb [/INST] 15, 1996, fueled by better-than-expected economic news and new, higher-yielding issues in other fixed-income markets. </s> |
1,056 | <s>[INST] The 30-year Treasury bond dropped more than a [/INST] point, to 97 20/32, to yield 6.17%, up from 6.09% on Feb 14. </s> |
1,057 | <s>[INST] Full text: Treasury bond prices fell, fueled [/INST] by better-than-expected economic news and new, higher-yielding issues in other fixed-income markets. </s> |
1,058 | <s>[INST] The 30-year bond price dropped more than [/INST] a point, to 97 20/32, or $10 for each $1,000 bond. </s> |
1,059 | <s>[INST] The yield, which moves in the opposite [/INST] direction of the price, rose to 6.17% yesterday from 6.09% Wednesday. </s> |
1,060 | <s>[INST] A better-than-expected report on durable-goods orders in December as [/INST] well as a $1 billion high-yield bond offering by Argentina helped fuel the price declines. </s> |
1,061 | <s>[INST] The Commerce Department reported that durable-goods [/INST] orders rose 2.1% compared with estimates for a gain of 0.5%. </s> |
1,062 | <s>[INST] Meanwhile, December's ratio of inventory to sales fell [/INST] to its lowest level in a year at 1.3 months' supply, the department said. </s> |
1,063 | <s>[INST] Both are indications that the [/INST] economy may not be as weak as investors believe. </s> |
1,064 | <s>[INST] An improving economy can be bad for bond [/INST] prices because it often foreshadows inflation, which tends to push interest rates higher. </s> |
1,065 | <s>[INST] Meanwhile, Argentina sold $1 billion of five-year bonds with [/INST] a 9.75% coupon at a spread over the five-year Treasury note of 4.1 percentage points. </s> |
1,066 | <s>[INST] And in the asset-backed market, Chase [/INST] Manhattan sold its second slug of bonds in as many days. </s> |
1,067 | <s>[INST] It sold $1.5 billion in credit-card-backed bonds [/INST] Wednesday and $1.47 billion in bonds backed by car loans yesterday. </s> |
1,068 | <s>[INST] Indeed, some say the supply of new, higher-yielding [/INST] bonds is the major reason investors have been moving out of Treasurys this week. </s> |
1,069 | <s>[INST] "The economic news hasn't been negative for this market," asserted Paul McCormack, [/INST] managing director at Chase Securities Inc. "The fact of the matter is, there's a lot of supply in the corporate and asset-backed market. </s> |
1,070 | <s>[INST] Investors are moving out [/INST] of Treasurys and into slightly higher-yielding paper". </s> |
1,071 | <s>[INST] Moreover, while the Commerce Department economic report indicated the economy may [/INST] not be as weak as had been thought, some discounted it, saying the government shutdown during December makes the numbers unreliable. </s> |
1,072 | <s>[INST] That said, a number of economists, notably Ed Hyman, chairman of ISI Group, [/INST] have predicted lately that the economy is heading into a recession and, so far, the economic news supporting that thesis has been mixed. </s> |
1,073 | <s>[INST] The KR-CRB index is at its highest level [/INST] in seven years, for example -- an indication that inflation may be on the rise. </s> |
1,074 | <s>[INST] While some of that has been the result of rising gold [/INST] prices -- which many have discounted as a temporary aberration -- it has also been fueled by rising grain prices. </s> |
1,075 | <s>[INST] Eric Cheung, a portfolio manager at Wilmington Trust Co., said the 30-year [/INST] bond yield will have a tough time moving lower unless there are economic data that point to a much weaker economy. </s> |
1,076 | <s>[INST] Corporate and Junk Bonds The Republic of Argentina saved a bundle by [/INST] delaying its $1 billion global debt offering by about two weeks in order to allow Mexico to make its dollar-denominated comeback first. </s> |
1,077 | <s>[INST] Argentina's five-year offer was the [/INST] highlight of yesterday's session in the corporate bond market. </s> |
1,078 | <s>[INST] The issue was priced with a 9 1/4% [/INST] coupon at 99.866 to yield 9.284%, a spread of 4.10 percentage points above Treasurys. </s> |
1,079 | <s>[INST] Just a month ago, Argentina might have had to pay as much as 4.50 percentage [/INST] points above Treasurys, according to James Quigley, managing director of the global debt transactions group at co-lead manager Merrill Lynch & Co. CS First Boston was the other co-lead. </s> |
1,080 | <s>[INST] In fact, the pricing came at the tight [/INST] end of this week's official price talk of 4.10 to 4.15 percentage points above Treasurys. </s> |
1,081 | <s>[INST] 30 look-alike offering of $1 billion of five-year debt [/INST] from the United Mexican States was priced at a spread of 4.45 pecentage points above Treasurys. </s> |
1,082 | <s>[INST] The issue, which is rated Ba2 by Moody's Investors Service [/INST] Inc. and double-B by Standard & Poor's Ratings Group, was widely described as a "blowout" when it was sold. </s> |
1,083 | <s>[INST] Argentina's issue is rated single-B1 by Moody's [/INST] and double-B-minus by S&P, slightly lower than the ratings on Mexico's global. </s> |
1,084 | <s>[INST] Municipal Bonds Municipal bonds continued to outperform [/INST] Treasurys as prospects for a flat tax seem to be fading for now. </s> |
1,085 | <s>[INST] A flat tax might make [/INST] the tax-deductibility of muni-bond interest less significant. </s> |
1,086 | <s>[INST] "Dealer inventories are fairly low and there are some good [/INST] cash flows into municipals," said Christopher Crosby, bond analyst at Raymond James & Associates, St. Petersburg, Fla. </s> |
1,087 | <s>[INST] Still, Mr. Crosby acknowledged, it's hard [/INST] to see munis rallying more strongly than Treasurys for much longer. </s> |
1,088 | <s>[INST] That was clear when a Lehman Brothers group was stuck [/INST] with $152 million of unsold Florida Board of Education bonds from a $243 million issue it won. </s> |
1,089 | <s>[INST] The new bonds, won with a 4.932% [/INST] true-interest-cost bid, yielded from 3.85% in 2000 to 5.15% in 2016. </s> |
1,090 | <s>[INST] Moody's and Standard & Poor's rated [/INST] most bonds double-A; FGIC-insured 2015 and 2016 maturities were rated triple-A. </s> |
1,091 | <s>[INST] Asset-Backed Securities GPA Group and the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System reached an [/INST] agreement paving the way for a $3.9 billion asset-backed offering and averting a potential bankruptcy filing by the Irish company, according to people familiar with the negotiations. </s> |
1,092 | <s>[INST] Roadshows for the global offering to be lead-managed [/INST] by Morgan Stanley & Co. are planned for early March, the people said. </s> |
1,093 | <s>[INST] Meanwhile, Chase Manhattan Bank dominated the primary markets again, following [/INST] a $1.5 billion credit card offering Wednesday with a $1.47 billion offering backed by auto loans yesterday. </s> |
1,094 | <s>[INST] Mortgage Securities Mortgage pass-through prices fell yesterday as originations [/INST] of new mortgage securities flowed into the market with little retail demand to soak them up. </s> |
1,095 | <s>[INST] We continue to see mortgage banker [/INST] selling on the downtick" in the Treasury market, a trader said. </s> |
1,096 | <s>[INST] Mortgage-to-Treasury yield spreads were said to be [/INST] growing slightly wider, on top of the previous widening of Wednesday afternoon. </s> |
1,097 | <s>[INST] Mortgage bankers tend to sell new securities as soon as rates [/INST] rise on the Treasury market in order to lock in the highest price possible for the home loans in their pipeline. </s> |
1,098 | <s>[INST] Usually, this supply is offset by renewed demand for mortgage-backed [/INST] bonds because higher interest rates reduce the probability of home loan refinancings, making a bond more protected from prepayments. </s> |
1,099 | <s>[INST] But very little demand [/INST] was seen in the 30-year pass-through sector. </s> |
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