European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Argentines building new National capital by Randall Hackley associated press new houses Are going up one alter another. And construction machines crunch through Horn Bushes to carve out new streets an expanded cily is rising at Viedma in wind blown Palagonia known Moro for its sea Lions. Seals penguins and whales than or ils people. By 1969. The s will be the new capital of Argentina part of the intent is to focus ally nation on Bleak Patagonia which lakes up iwo thirds of Argentina s land area but has Only 2 percent of its 31 million people the plan to move the capital from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires 600 Miles to the North already has brought Boom limes id Hric makers builders and bartenders in vie coma and Carmenda Pata Gonos its sister City across the flip negro which also will be Parl of the capital. Flights into Viedma have tripled since the Argentine Congress enacted the new capital legislation june 8 it has be a madness Lovely madness said architect Opeyo Salas himself a recent transplant from Buenos Aires. Business has never been  the plan however has its opponents who say the wonder How a Nalion that has the developing world s third largest foreign debt $52 billion can pay Iho Cost of the move estimated at $4 billion to $12 billion. A new National capital was the idea of president Raul Alfonsin who proposed the move from Buenos Aires to decentralize a country where one third of the people and 48 percent of Industry Are entered in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area on the River plate. For a similar reason neighbouring Brazil moved its capital from coastal Rio de Janeiro in 1960 to Brasilia on a hinterland plateau Al Lonson Hopes to inaugurate the next president in december 1909 in the As yet unnamed new capital City but planners say the first members of Congress. Government Oll rials and supremo court justices won t leave Buenos Aires Tor at least three years judging from grat lilt on Watts by Viedma the most popular name of the locals is pied a. A Rombi natron of Patagonia and Viedma Viedma is in northernmost Patagonia e desolate Region of incessant winds that stretches South irom he Rio negro for 930 Miles to the tip of South America. The president will decide the capital s new name from a list submitted by the National Council Tor Fine arts scholars and several citizens panels. Top candidates include Patagonia Del mar Patagonia of the sea. Curry Levu an Araucania a Indian name Lor the Rio negro and Carmen Del Rio negro reportedly favored by Alfonsin. Fourteen months ago Amonsin described the capital move As an end to the excessive megalopolis of Buenos Aires and the Start of a new mental Frontier for Patagonia. Alfonsin Ald the move represented a new age of pioneering in Patagonia whose modern history dates from 1501, when the Lallian Sailor Amerigo Vespucci namesake for America is believed to have been the first european to pass the legion. Ferdinand Magellan credited Wilh making the lust landfall in Patagonia Al san Julian in 1520, was said to have seen a giant on the Shore dancing and leaping and singing and we