ARGENTINA: Boudou Apologizes For Nazi Gas Chamber Slur.

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    Economy Minister Amado Boudou now says his comparison of two local journalists to Nazi gas chamber workers was an “inappropriate metaphor.”
    In Washington on 8 Oct., Boudou told reporters from Clarin and La Nacion : "You are like those who cleaned up the gas chambers under the Nazis. If you don’t want to be accomplices, you should quit and not work any longer in those companies.”
    Government officials have accused the Clarin and La Nacion newspapers of bias in their reporting and asked courts to review the purchase of newsprint producer Papel Prensa SA by the newspapers’ owners during the country’s military dictatorship in 1976.

ARGENTINA: New Polls Say "Nunca" To Maradona Return.

AP/      New polls show that nine out of 10 Argentines DON'T want Diego Maradona back as coach of their national soccer team.
    Maradona was seen to be almost pleading in a recent TV interview saying "I'd give my life" to have the job again.
    He was fired after the team was defeated by Germany, 4-0 in the World Cup quarters.
  91.1 per cent of about 10,000 in the newspaper Clarin's poll said they did not want him back. In the La Nacion newspaper, 93 per cent of 6,185  were against Maradona's return.