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Raul Ricardo Alfonsin
 "A
good job", said Dr Raul Ricardo Alfonsin as he saw his sketch and
promptly affixed his signature over it. This happened during his state
visit to Delhi as President of Argentina. He was in Delhi in 1985 to
take part in the Six-Nation Summit on Nuclear Disarmament when Rajiv
Gandhi was the Prime Minister.
Alfonsin graduated in
Law and entered politics in 1958 by winning a seat as a provincial
deputy. In 1963 he became President of the Buenos Aires Committee. The
1976 military coup was a setback to his ambitions and during the
military regime he published the book La Cuestion Argentina (The
Argentina Affairs).
In the 1983 internal elections of the
party he obtained the majority vote for Presidential candidature. He was
subsequently elected constitutional President of Argentina.
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