WORLD IN BRIEF : ARGENTINA : Troops Dispatched to Forestall Riots

The five-month-old Peronist government sent 500 paramilitary troops to Rosario, Argentina’s second-largest city, to prevent a repetition of bloody food riots as it prepared new measures designed to tame the economy’s chronic inflation. Riots last spring by slum dwellers in Rosario and other large Argentine cities, which left at least 14 people dead, were sparked by hyperinflation, growing unemployment and falling output. Former President Raul Alfonsin’s successor, Carlos Menem, faces mounting trade union protests for higher pay and published rumors about government corruption.