The World - News from March 5, 1985
Argentina’s armed forces chief of staff, Gen. Julio Fernandez Torres, resigned to protest cuts in the country’s military budget since President Raul Alfonsin took power in late 1983 after eight years of military rule. A Defense Ministry spokesman said Fernandez Torres will be replaced by the army chief of staff, Ricardo Pianta, and that the commander of the 3rd Army Corps, Hector Rios Erenu, will take the top army post.
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