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VALPARAISO, Chile: If you're a former dictator who is held responsible for thousands of deaths and disappearances, you ought to be careful what you wish for. Case in point: General Augusto Pinochet, who Wednesday took up the lifetime Senate seat he'd engineered for himself by rewriting the country's constitution -- and immediately got a taste of civilian politics. Opposition legislators taunted him with pictures of some of those murdered or "disappeared" under his regime, and there was a shout of "Assassin!" as he was sworn in. Novel experiences for a man whose opponents risked torture and death...
Chile's earlier pension system was based on the American model. By the mid-1970s it faced a financing meltdown that presented the government of General Augusto Pinochet with two familiar options: cut benefits or raise taxes. Instead Pinochet scrapped the payroll tax-financed system altogether and replaced it with a small, flat stipend, funded out of the government's general revenues, that goes to only the poorest pensioners. Everyone else is required to put 12% of salary into one of 24 large investment funds that the government tightly regulates. The results, say boosters of the Chilean solution...
...Joao Augusto de Lima Lustosa...
...Augusto F. Grace...
Thorne, who plans to enter national politics,has also volunteered in campaigns for Kennedy andsecretary of state candidate Augusto F. Grace...