World IN BRIEF : ARGENTINA : Leader Wins Fight to Run for 2nd Term

President Carlos Saul Menem, the architect of Argentina’s economic recovery, won his battle to be allowed to run for a second term and scrapped a plebiscite on the question planned for next Sunday. Menem and his predecessor, Raul Alfonsin of the opposition Radical Civic Union, met, hugged and signed a paper drafted earlier by their aides to clear the way for a reform of Argentina’s 140-year-old constitution, which currently bars consecutive terms. Besides allowing Menem to run again when his term expires in 1995, the pact also includes shortening presidential terms to four years from six and creating the position of prime minister, said Menem spokesman Raul Burzaco.