Mr. Alfonsin confirmed expectations that Argentina will modify its debt-negotiating strategy, turning away from what political opponents have attacked as a compliant approach.
The censorship system seeks to achieve a compliant press on Pravda-like lines, rather than a wholesale closure of publications, which would be embarassing and inconvenient.
Nevertheless the department concluded that 'the tendered prices could be considered to be realistic'. Neither bid was fully technically compliant at that stage.
And while the Red Army, on balance, may be out of Afghanistan, the Soviets continue to rely on that country's compliant communist government for natural gas.
"This could be misused to conceivably make a population more compliant or more militant.
After all, they may become more compliant once they vent steam.
That belief was underlined when the compliant parliament last month called for Saddam to be named president for life without any elections.
An independent central banker is better than a politically compliant one, but there is no merit in being independently wrong.