page 16 note * Throughout this article fictitious first names will be used when it is necessary to conceal an individual's identity. Where full names are offered, they are the person's actual name.

page 17 note * According to the organization's calculations, at leasl hlteen more Uruguayan political prisoners died in the year follow mg Balbi's death.

page 18 note * The '"Front'" was a broadly based political coalition encompassing Socialists. Communists. Christian Democrats, and others. Formed before the 1971 national elections, it collected an impressive 18 percent of the vote.

page 21 note * Although the laws were directed against (he Communist-led labor movement, blue-collar workers were less adamantly opposed to these measures than were middle-class respondents. Interestingly, the group most supportive ot the government's hard-line, "law-and-order" policies was the urban poor—the unskilled, nonunioni/ed slum dwellers living beneath the organized working class. This group may well still rank with the urban upper class as the government's strongest supporter.

page 23 note * The Carter administration subsequently terminated military aid to Argentina.

page 24 note * It is interesting to note that while the Carter administration has strongly opposed repressive political practices in Latin America, it has reaffirmed its support for the International Monetary fund, whose fiscally conservative economic policies have induced the governments of Argentina. Chile, and Uruguay to reduce the real income of their workers 30 to 50 percent. More important, the IMF's economic policies have clear political implications. As one Uruguayan businessman candidly admitted to me: "There is no way you can force that kind of declining standard of living on the labor force without first destroying their unions and denying them the right to bargain collectively and strike."