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Chilean Generalissimo Augusto Pinochet reports that his junta has received an overwhelming vote of confidence. Says the Generalissimo. "Once we discounted invalid ballots cast by communists, anarchists, rebels, homosexuals, and the criminally insane, the vote of confidence was unanimous." Two million Chileans cannot be reached for comment...
Fifty years ago the inhabitants of the town of Ocotal in the mountains of northern Nicaragua witnessed an armed encounter between a detachment of U.S. Marines and a band of Nicaraguan insurgents under the leadership of General Augusto C. Sandino. The Marines formed part of an occupation force dispatched to this Central American nation by President Calvin Coolidge in order to put an end to civil disturbances and the threat these posed to U.S. property and strategic interests. Sandino, a military commander, had refused to accept the political settlement imposed on Nicaragua by the U.S. He vowed to continue...
...fact, at least partly because he objected to being seen with some of the Latino "gorillas" who were on hand. But Carter, if smiling, dealt quite sternly with some of the autocratic leaders whom he flatly accused of violating human rights. "Magnifico hombre, de veras," murmured Chilean President Augusto Pinochet as he emerged from the presidential lecture, even though Carter had urged him to speed up trials and release more prisoners...
...SEPTEMBER 11, 1974, the residents of Santiago. Chile, woke up to hear tanks rumbling through their streets; four years ago, the democratically-elected government of Salvador Allende was overthrown by a military junta supported by U.S. arms and money; four years ago, the junta, headed by General Augusto Pinochet, initiated its reign of bloody terror, beginning with the murder of Chileans who tried to protect their constitutional right to choose their own government...
...Thus Todman was to shore up relations with the continent's right-wing military regimes, while Derian would press Carter's human rights campaign with civic leaders and government officials. In what was seen as an important move to improve relations with Washington, Chile's President Augusto Pinochet announced late last week that he was disbanding the country's notorious secret police agency, DINA. The action came shortly after Todman arrived...